Trouble reaching whois.ripe.net and www.ietf.org

[Mohacsi Janos]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Alexander Koch wrote:

> On Tue, 17 October 2006 12:33:18 -0400, James Jun wrote:
> [..]
>>  4  v3323-mpd.cr1.lhr1.uk.occaid.net  90.316 ms  89.977 ms  89.899 ms
>>  5  2001:7f8:4::d1c:1  91.032 ms  90.645 ms  90.505 ms
>>  6  2001:1900:5:2::6  125.838 ms  126.067 ms  126.017 ms
>>  7  so-7-2-0.rt1.vie.at.geant2.net  126.020 ms  125.966 ms  125.944 ms
>
> Vienna, Austria... then Frankfurt, Luxembourg, up to
> Copenhagen. It should be around 20-25ms from London for v4,
> but this way it is much much more... :->
>
> Alexander,
> not a GEANT fan...
>

I think this not the fault of GEANT. From HUNGARNET -Hungary, via Prague, 
Germany, London -JANET, Southampton:

Via IPv6

traceroute6 www.ecs.soton.ac.uk
traceroute6 to augur.ecs.soton.ac.uk (2001:630:d0:f102:204:23ff:feb9:897f) 
from 2001:738:0:401::3, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
  1  2001:738:0:401::2  0.674 ms  0.537 ms  0.508 ms
  2  2001:738:0:418::1  0.962 ms  0.673 ms  0.586 ms
  3  c6513.vh.hbone.hu  0.821 ms  0.774 ms  0.844 ms
  4  gsr16.vh.hbone.hu  0.850 ms  0.670 ms  0.555 ms
  5  2001:798:1b:10aa::5  0.849 ms  0.815 ms  0.849 ms
  6  so-4-0-0.rt1.pra.cz.geant2.net  8.888 ms  8.996 ms  8.894 ms
  7  so-6-3-0.rt1.fra.de.geant2.net  16.837 ms  16.700 ms  16.628 ms
  8  so-5-0-0.rt1.ams.nl.geant2.net  23.961 ms  24.054 ms  23.955 ms
  9  2001:798:cc:2201:2801::2  32.143 ms  32.261 ms  31.993 ms
10  po2-0-0.gn2-gw1.ja.net  32.139 ms  32.112 ms  31.991 ms
11  po1-1.lond-scr3.ja.net  31.997 ms  32.098 ms  31.995 ms
12  po1-0.lond-scr.ja.net  32.298 ms  32.326 ms  32.238 ms
13  po2-0.cosh-scr.ja.net  34.486 ms  34.293 ms  34.186 ms
14  po0-0.cosham-bar.ja.net  34.487 ms  34.449 ms  34.629 ms
15  lense.site.ja.net  34.477 ms  34.585 ms  34.340 ms
16  * * *
17  2001:630:c1:1::1  35.233 ms  35.172 ms  34.772 ms
18  2001:630:c1:10::2  35.212 ms  35.333 ms  35.068 ms
19  2001:630:c1:100::2  35.794 ms  35.334 ms  35.062 ms
20  internal-router.6core.ecs.soton.ac.uk  35.513 ms  35.617 ms  35.495 ms


Via IPv4:
traceroute www.ecs.soton.ac.uk
traceroute to augur.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.68.160), 64 hops max, 40 byte 
packet
s
  1  gateway.ki.iif.hu (193.6.222.1)  0.404 ms  0.310 ms  0.413 ms
  2  c6513-tengbeth13-1.vh.hbone.hu (195.111.96.73)  0.377 ms  0.392 ms 
0.547 ms
  3  gsr16-gbeth10-0.vh.hbone.hu (195.111.97.241)  0.581 ms  0.528 ms 
0.541 ms
  4  hungarnet.rt1.bud.hu.geant2.net (62.40.124.101)  0.422 ms  0.526 ms 
0.562 m
s
  5  so-4-0-0.rt1.pra.cz.geant2.net (62.40.112.41)  8.594 ms  8.576 ms 
8.597 ms
  6  so-6-3-0.rt1.fra.de.geant2.net (62.40.112.38)  16.478 ms  16.322 ms 
16.339
ms
  7  so-5-0-0.rt1.ams.nl.geant2.net (62.40.112.58)  23.794 ms  23.761 ms 
23.810
ms
  8  so-1-0-0.rt1.lon.uk.geant2.net (62.40.112.138)  31.829 ms  31.833 ms 
31.850
  ms
  9  po2-0-0.gn2-gw1.ja.net (62.40.124.198)  31.696 ms  31.675 ms  31.694 
ms
10  po1-1.lond-scr3.ja.net (146.97.35.97)  31.849 ms  31.839 ms  31.694 ms
11  po1-0.lond-scr.ja.net (146.97.33.29)  31.996 ms  32.129 ms  31.942 ms
12  po2-0.cosh-scr.ja.net (146.97.33.42)  34.034 ms  33.861 ms  33.913 ms
13  po0-0.cosham-bar.ja.net (146.97.35.22)  33.881 ms  33.881 ms  33.751 
ms
14  146.97.40.2 (146.97.40.2)  34.027 ms  33.882 ms  33.886 ms
15  * * *
16  212.219.151.121 (212.219.151.121)  34.743 ms  34.557 ms  34.465 ms
17  212.219.151.122 (212.219.151.122)  35.060 ms  35.037 ms  34.891 ms
18  212.219.151.114 (212.219.151.114)  35.354 ms  35.762 ms  35.649 ms
19  b54gafwc1n1-ext.net.soton.ac.uk (152.78.0.22)  35.640 ms  35.762 ms 
35.375
ms
20  b54gagesw1-fwint.net.soton.ac.uk (152.78.109.14)  36.953 ms  36.356 ms 
36.5
25 ms
21  b54aagesw1-ga.net.soton.ac.uk (152.78.108.61)  36.977 ms  37.380 ms 
95.294
ms
22  augur.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.68.160)  37.700 ms  37.392 ms  37.378 ms

Via IPv4 slightly more delay (3 ms).

I think you should persuade Occaid and DANTE (operator of GEANT2) to have 
more IPv6 interconnections. 
Regards,

Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F  4300 6F64 7B00 70EF 9882

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