SixXS vs. 6to4

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 20:29:41 CET 2011


Ivan,

Read http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6343

There are many possible explanations for Anycast 6to4 failures. Some of
them are unfixable.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 2011-12-31 16:47, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> 	It looks like there's a connectivity problem in between the
> 	SixXS.net and 6to4 worlds.  Please consider, e. g.:
> 
> $ traceroute6 -s 2002:bc78:XXXX::1 \
>       2001:15c0:XXXX::1 
> traceroute to 2001:15c0:XXXX::1 (2001:15c0:XXXX::1) from 2002:bc78:XXXX::1, port 33434, from port 50121, 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  * * *
>>  5  * * *
>  6  maribor3-te-7-4.amis.net (2001:15c0:ffff:d::d)  146.467 ms  170.284 ms  135.588 ms 
>  7  * * *
>> 29  * * *
> 30  * * *
> $ 
> 
> 	The same destination is reachable via a HE.net 6in4 tunnel from
> 	the same host, like:
> 
> $ traceroute6 -s 2001:470:XXXX::1 \
>       2001:15c0:XXXX::1 
> traceroute to 2001:15c0:XXXX::1 (2001:15c0:XXXX::1) from 2001:470:XXXX::1, port 33434, from port 50092, 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  * * *
>>  5  * * *
>  6  maribor3-te-7-4.amis.net (2001:15c0:ffff:d::d)  147.248 ms  171.618 ms  215.410 ms 
>  7  simbx01.sixxs.net (2001:15c0:ffff:7::2)  171.574 ms  143.399 ms  141.565 ms 
>  8  2001:15c0:XXXX::1 (2001:15c0:XXXX::1)  287.687 ms  325.801 ms  268.182 ms 
> $ 
> 
> 	As the traceroutes above start to differ at the link between
> 	2001:15c0:ffff:d::d and 2001:15c0:ffff:7::2, I'd assume that one
> 	of these is in charge.
> 
> 	TIA.  And HNY.
> 



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