[139796] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Comcast's 6to4 Relays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Tue Apr 19 23:55:34 2011
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:53:48 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lavanauts.org>
To: Bhoomi Jain <bhoomij@india.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110420022657.6E18311C5@smtp02.zmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, "Brzozowski,
John" <John_Brzozowski@Cable.Comcast.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bhoomi Jain wrote:
> To give you an idea, a lot of the Internet in India depends on the
> service of the Tata companies, with international routing coming from
> Tata Communications AS 6453. Announcing 192.88.99.0/24 to 6453 as a
> customer, I would worry about its treatment as BGP best-path, in place
> of closer 6to4 relays. As you understand, these circuits are very far
> away, and also very full. This is not something I would recommend.
Perhaps you should try convincing Tata to setup their own 6to4 relay so
they can provide a better experience for their own customers who, for
whatever reason, may not be able to get or use native IPv6 for quite some
time.
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Antonio Querubin
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