[139795] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast's 6to4 Relays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Tue Apr 19 23:01:46 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110420022657.6E18311C5@smtp02.zmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:00:53 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Bhoomi Jain <bhoomij@india.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Bhoomi Jain <bhoomij@india.com> wrote:
> Mr. John,
>
> I thank you for asking the advice of the community.
>
> As our colleagues suggest, having 6to4 relays inside the network helps to=
reduce the latency. =A0Opening up your generous services to a larger Inter=
net community by advertising the 192.88.99.0/24 BGP prefix outside the netw=
ork could have extreme and unintended consequences.
>
> To give you an idea, a lot of the Internet in India depends on the servic=
e of the Tata companies, with international routing coming from Tata Commun=
ications AS 6453. =A0Announcing 192.88.99.0/24 to 6453 as a customer, I wou=
ld worry about its treatment as BGP best-path, in place of closer 6to4 rela=
ys. =A0As you understand, these circuits are very far away, and also very f=
ull. =A0This is not something I would recommend.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bhoomi Jain
On the contrary; I think Comcast announcing their 6to4 relays
through TATA could be just the incentive the Internet needs to
kick the 6to4 habit completely, and decide once and for all
the only sane option is dual-stack native. ;-)
Matt
