6to4 status (again)

[Brzozowski, John Jason]

Lorenzo,

This will be a marathon for sure.

John


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at google.com> wrote:

> 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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