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

[Chris Hellberg]

Dan,

I have set up a v6 peering exchange in Wellington, New Zealand in the hope of get
some v6 interest and  flowing. I did have v6-accessible mirrors of some
open-source projects, however it's been temporarily taken off the air.
I have a think about injecting an anycast address for dynamic tunnels a
bit later on.

There is tunnel to the 6bone on the IX, however I've set a no-export on those
routes unless requested. 

webpage: http://www.soa.co.nz/ipv6

Cheers,

Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Reeder [mailto:dan@reeder.name] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:59 PM
> To: 6bone@mailman.isi.edu
> Subject: [6bone] trace to 192.88.99.1; .au v6 connectivity
> 
> 
> Hi people,
> Unless I am under the wrong impression completely, it is my
> understanding that 192.88.99.1 is the special 'anycast' address used for
> finding the nearest 2002:: 6to4 routing gateway.
> 
> I've been doing some traces from various hosts here in .au and they all
> either end up at a host in Swizerland or a host in Finland. The thing
> is, I'm rather skeptical of the fact that these servers are the
> 'nearest' to Australia, BGP-speaking or otherwise.
> 
> Any assistance you good folks could lend me in relation to this issue
> would be a great help. Is 6to4 connectivity even desired these days?
> 
> Secondly, and primarily addressed to Aussies/Kiwis/Asians, I've also got
> a question with regards to the general IPv6 scene in Australia / Oceania
> at the moment. As far as I am aware there are zero tunnel brokers in
> this region, let alone commercial entities actively offering and
> promoting customer v6 connectivity, although personally I probably
> couldn't afford a netblock were it offered for a fee. I mean, as I see
> it the nearest quality tunnel broker (in terms of latency) to me
> (Brisbane) is he.net's pop at Los Angeles! I'm aware that Aarnet is on
> it's way to developing a rather decent educationally-inclined ipv6
> facility, and I can only hope they will open up a public tunnel
> brokering service, however apart from them there seems to be nobody here
> operating a relatively-domestic network yet, letalone an organisation
> with decent trans-pacific connectivity.
> 
> So, how long do us aussies/oceanians have to put up with ordinarily
> 200ms+ first hops?
> 
> cheers and regards,
> Dan Reeder
> 2001:470:1f00:510::/64
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