192.88.99.1 (6to4 anycast) in Russia

[Brian E Carpenter]

Ivan,

Point your ISP friends and acquaintances to RFC 6343.
That's your best chance of either getting a working 6to4
service, or rapid and therefore less annoying failure.

Beyond that I suppose sixxs is your best bet.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 2011-10-22 05:37, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>>>>>> Nick Hilliard <nick at netability.ie> writes:
>>>>>> On 21/10/2011 09:20, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> 
>  >> BTW, I've got an impression that the major networks in Russia are
>  >> generally fail to deliver any packets sent to the 6to4 anycast
>  >> address.
> 
>  > In one respect, you should probably be glad about this, because it
>  > will cause people to tend to disable 6to4 (which is a good thing).
> 
> 	Just as well, it makes the presence of IPv6 connectivity utterly
> 	negligible in Russia.
> 
> 	A couple of years ago, I've talked with one of the IT department
> 	managers at Altai State University while working there.  IIRC,
> 	his point was that IPv6 is by all means irrelevant to them.  And
> 	indeed, native IPv6 connectivity was extremly rare here (if
> 	there was any) until recently for the general people to know or
> 	care for it.
> 
> 	And even now, IPv6 (6rd, along with a working 6to4 anycast) is
> 	only offered by a single ISP in the city (out of five or six at
> 	the least.)  For the rural areas, AIUI, the only option for IPv6
> 	connectivity is the use of some (presumably distant,
> 	network-wise) tunnel broker service.
> 
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