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Re: google ipv6 routes via cogent

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olivier Benghozi)
Thu Mar 2 10:14:52 2017

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Olivier Benghozi <olivier.benghozi@wifirst.fr>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:11:14 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <001801d28f7e$d063ac10$712b0430$@gvtc.com>
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Due to various peering disputes (notably with Hurricane Electric) Cogent =
just don't have all the routes in IPv6 (and should be regarded as a =
partial IPv6 transit only).
One should not rely only on Cogent for its transit, anyway :)
Don't count on any improvement soon. It was already discussed here one =
year ago...

> On 25 feb. 2017 at 16:49, Aaron <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote :
>=20
> Cogent is telling me that I can't route through cogent to get to =
google ipv6
> routes (particularly the well known dns addresses =
2001:4860:4860::88xx)
> because google decided not to advertise those route to one of their =
mutual
> peers.
>=20
> Anyone know anything about this ?  .and why it happened and when it =
will be
> resolved ?


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