6to4 status (again)

[Lorenzo Colitti]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:39 AM, David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:

> So PLEASE just don't go turning off 6to4 relays willy-nilly, turning them
> off when there is no more traffic is fine.  But, just turning them off when
> there is traffic adds to bad user experience we are trying to correct.
>
> If you need to manage the traffic to your relay then change your BGP
> advertizements to make it look less attractive, or change the scope of your
> advertizements to cover only your direct customers, but don't just turn it
> off.


Every time someone turns off a relay or limit the scope of the BGP
advertisements they are reduce the total capacity of the system. The
traffic doesn't disappear, it goes somewhere else, and with every relay
it's more likely to be dropped. There's just no way to win this game.
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