[6bone] trace to 192.88.99.1; .au v6 connectivity

[Jeroen Massar]

Ross Finlayson wrote:

> I'm located in Silicon Valley (USA), and right now I'm using 
> "6to4.ipv6.microsoft.com" (2002:836b:213c:1:e0:8f08:f020:8) 
> as my 6to4 router, because it's far closer to me, topologically, than
any router 
> that's currently being advertised on the anycast address 
> (2002:c058:6301::).  But I hate having to 'hard-wire' in a 
> 6to4 router (especially one located at Microsoft :-); I really wish I 
> could just use the anycast address, and automatically get a router
that's 
> 'close' to me.

You could try he.net (http://tunnelbroker.com) though that's 6in4 they
are known to provide a quality service.

> However, the real question to ask here is: Why are more 6to4 
> relays not being advertised to the world using the default anycast
address?  The 
> answer, presumably, is that there's no incentive for anyone to do 
> this!  What incentive does anyone have to provide a 6to4 
> relay (and, thus, bandwidth) to outsiders?  With this in mind, can we
ever 
> expect public, anycast 6to4 relays to become more widespread?

6to4 is a transitional method, one should opt for native first.
If that is not a possibility one should find the closest IPv6 uplink,
may this be 6to4, 6in4 or other tunneled mechanisms.

Unfortunatly the "Americas's" (ARIN region) isn't quite aware of IPv6 ;(
So go hammer the ISP's over there.

Greets,
 Jeroen