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I recently acquired my first native IPv6 address space for our
organization in the hopes that we could take a stab at participating
in World IPv6 day. Cogent provided the address space on connectivity
they provide us at the Dallas Infomart.<br>
<br>
The first thing I tried to do was to ping some of my addresses on
Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker, which I use at home. "No Route".
Then I found this:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ipv6.he.net/bgpview/24h_history/COGC-6NET-0001.html">http://ipv6.he.net/bgpview/24h_history/COGC-6NET-0001.html</a><br>
<br>
I contacted Hurricane Electric, who informed me that Cogent doesn't
have a path to them.<br>
<br>
The thought of being the "IPv6 engineer" in our firm and thusly
being the only one who wouldn't be able to access our site on world
IPv6 day is silly, but if I started putting in AAAA records that's
just what would happen. <br>
<br>
Is this par for the course with IPv6 peering? What kind of
improvement are we likely to see between now and June?<br>
<br>
We don't have any DNS magic like Google does (to try and hand out
AAAAs only to known good peers). We're using Dynect for DNS... they
support IPv6 but I don't think they have anything like Google's
split view technique implemented. <br>
<br>
If I publish AAAA records on World IPv6 day, will I just be cutting
off some IPv6 users from our site? (Never mind the 0.1% of
IPv6-broken users)<br>
<br>
I should point out that I'm not trying to point the finger at
Cogent... to their credit, our other provider advertises IPv6 but
their sales people inform me it's only available on an optical GigE
handoff and won't be available on smaller circuits until at least
60-90 days. The Cogent program is specifically labelled "Beta" and
we had no problems participating.<br>
<br>
PS: If anyone is curious to ping me on Cogent, try
2001:550:2:49::1:2.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Chase<br>
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<b>Chase Venters</b><br>
Exceleron Software<br>
+1-972-852-2718<br>
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