Bad IPv6 connectivity or why not to announce more specifics (Was: IPv6 news)

Thu Oct 13 19:44:23 UTC 2005

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:38 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:06:30 +0200, Jeroen Massar said:
> 
> > Well Valdis, that bad route also has to do with your side of the
> > equation, you might want to check who you are actually using as transits
> > and if the routes they are providing to you are sane enough.
> 
> Well, if somebody at stupi.se wants to do a traceroute6 back at us, I'll
> be glad to see what the reverse path looks like...  but last I heard
> traceroute and traceroute6 showed the *forward* path of packets..

That is correct, try tracepath, this shows at least the assymetry.
You can also peek at GRH to see a probable AS path back. ASN's still
tell a lot in IPv6.

Next month I'll finalize the 'symmetry' tool which allows one to do the
AS path checkup between two places automatically.

> > 2001:468::/32 is in the routing table, getting accepted by most ISP's.
> > This one has a reasonable route
> 
> The real problem (at least for the forward direction from here) is that the
> outbound packets get into the Abilene network, and the best path from there to
> 2001:440:1880 is a 3ffe: tunnel to japan and then another 3ffe: tunnel back to New
> York.

Kick Abilene to not be so silly and get some real transits. Then again
Abiline is educational and those networks seem to have very nice (read:
overcomplex) routing policies...

Greets,
 Jeroen

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