[118070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Oct 12 12:21:54 2009
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:20:58 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <a05493650910120441i27550f17qaa7d3377824afdda@mail.gmail.com>
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Igor Ybema wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently noticed that there seems a peering issue on the ipv6 internet.
> As we all know hurricane is currently the largest ipv6 carrier. Other large
> carriers are now implementing ipv6 on their networks, like Cogent and Telia.
>
> However, due to some politics it seems that they are not peering with each
> other resulting in a broken ipv6 internet currently. I noticed this by using
> the looking glasses from telia and hurricane.
>
> This is only a real problem if you use hurricane as the only transit.
> However, hurricane also announces 6to4 relays. When you happen to use the
> hurricane relay server (due to the shortest path), cogent and telia (and
> maybe more) are not reachable.
>
> I already asked hurricane about their point of view. They simply just ignore
> it because they 'are the biggest one'.
>
> I'm currious about you point of view.
>
Don't get me started on IPv6 crap... ;)
If you are interested, I don't want to spam the list with my Verizon
horror story, but you can read it here:
http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/category/ipv6/
~Seth
