v6 routing pessimism

[Carlos Friacas]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> You know, it's always fun when traffic takes a slightly circuitous route
> from A to B, but is it really necessary for ipv6 from dublin to
> amsterdam to go:
>
> dublin
> CA, USA
> IN, USA
> seoul, korea
> beijing, china
> WA, USA
> NYC, USA
> london
> amsterdam

i've seen a lot of lisbon-lisbon traffic going through amsterdam or 
london, but this dublin-amsterdam path beats that easily :-)


> ?
>
> And before anyone starts pointing the finger at the immediate upstream
> (AS2110), this goes well beyond any misconfiguration they might have.
>
> The AS path is a hilarious "2110 3549 11537 17579 1237 17832 24136 109
> 109 6939 3257 3333" - ouch!

glad not to see my ASN on this as-path :-)


now, to the serious question: can't you get an IPv6 transit provider based 
in Europe? :-)


> Nick Hilliard
>
> --
>
> twinkie:/home/nick> traceroute6 www.ripe.net
> traceroute6 to kite-www.ripe.net (2001:610:240:0:a843::8) from 2001:7c8:51:d::2, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
> 1  2001:7c8:51:d::1  24.551 ms  25.363 ms  29.466 ms
> 2  fe2-0.6rt501.cwt.esat.net  25.545 ms  30.837 ms  25.744 ms
> 3  fe0-0.6core001.cwt.esat.net  25.990 ms  29.274 ms  26.562 ms
> 4  fe1-0.6br002.cwt.esat.net  26.194 ms  28.596 ms  28.240 ms
> 5  2001:450:1:2001::c0  297.667 ms  374.650 ms  307.825 ms
> 6  3ffe:80a::c  283.053 ms  269.354 ms  264.996 ms
> 7  3ffe:80a::c  274.048 ms  266.894 ms  262.179 ms
> 8  3ffe:80a::bd  262.365 ms  259.719 ms  260.512 ms
> 9  sttlng-snvang.abilene.ucaid.edu  276.447 ms  275.009 ms  269.765 ms
> 10  2001:468:ff:16c1::6  456.615 ms  466.958 ms  466.970 ms
> 11  2001:320:1b00:1::1  455.235 ms  473.424 ms  467.670 ms
> 12  2001:320:1a05::4  460.621 ms  483.173 ms  471.106 ms
> 13  2001:320:1a06::2  458.305 ms  463.229 ms  467.939 ms
> 14  2001:320:1a07::20  465.043 ms  464.923 ms  468.042 ms
> 15  2001:320:1a07::2  464.441 ms  475.520 ms  465.939 ms
> 16  2001:2b8:0:81::82  468.064 ms  469.388 ms  476.418 ms
> 17  2001:2b8:4:30::2  675.663 ms  679.488 ms  683.676 ms
> 18  2001:dc7:ff:1000::2  687.167 ms  699.041 ms  693.122 ms
> 19  equinix6-was.ip.tiscali.net  438.838 ms  440.648 ms  440.359 ms
> 20  so-0-1-3.was10.ip6.tiscali.net  441.282 ms  442.252 ms  444.234 ms
> 21  so-0-0-0.nyc33.ip6.tiscali.net  443.926 ms  442.760 ms  442.975 ms
> 22  so-4-0-0.lon12.ip6.tiscali.net  443.613 ms  451.108 ms  442.985 ms
> 23  pos-7-1-1.ams11.ip6.tiscali.net  451.892 ms  453.952 ms  451.704 ms
> 24  so-7-0-0.ams10.ip6.tiscali.net  451.118 ms  447.377 ms  453.726 ms
> 25  nikipv6.ripe.net  455.056 ms  468.151 ms  465.417 ms
> 26  2001:610:240:0:a843::8  462.339 ms  464.724 ms  477.005 ms
> twinkie:/home/nick>
>


./Carlos
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