6to4 status (again)

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Fri Mar 1 13:45:35 CET 2013


Hi,

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:57:02AM -0500, Brzozowski, John Jason wrote:
> Ole we actually have experience that tells us it would be bad if we turned
> our relays.  Some streaming service experience is already not optimal over
> 6to4 using our relays largely related to the protocol not the relays
> themselves.  Turning ours down would result in the use of a single 6to4
> relay on someone else's network.  Further this relay is hosted by a
> university.  For now we think it makes more sense to keep our running and
> encourage client side disablement until there is ~0 bits over 6to4.

Do you know why your clients are using 6to4 to access "some streaming
service" in the first place?  If they only have IPv4 and 6to4, they should
not use IPv6.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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