Level3 IPv6 peering with HE only in London?

Dave Sotnick sotnickd-nanog at ddv.com
Thu Apr 12 04:08:05 UTC 2012


Hello Nanog,

Looks like Level3's only IPv6 route to HE is via London right now:

Show Level 3 (Las Vegas, NV) Traceroute to www.he.net
 1 vl-5.bar1.LasVegas1.Level3.net (2001:1900:2F::1) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
 2 vl-11.bar2.LasVegas1.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::3C6) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
 3 vl-4045.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::276) 84 msec 228
msec 224 msec
 4 vl-4081.car2.Denver1.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::32) 20 msec 20 msec 20 msec
 5 vl-4042.edge1.Chicago2.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::36) 44 msec 44 msec 44 msec
 6 vl-4067.car1.Chicago1.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::1D) 48 msec 212
msec 224 msec
 7 vl-4061.car2.NewYork2.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::22) 184 msec 216
msec 232 msec
 8 vl-4080.car1.NewYork2.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::F1) 80 msec 80 msec 80 msec
 9 vl-4041.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (2001:1900:4:1::101) 80 msec 80 msec 80 msec
 10 vl-4086.edge3.London1.Level3.net (2001:1900:6:1::11) 176 msec 144
msec 164 msec
 11 vl-4081.edge3.London1.Level3.net (2001:1900:5:1::102) 136 msec 132 msec
   vl-4081.edge4.London1.Level3.net (2001:1900:5:1::106) 148 msec
 12 2001:1900:5:3::11E 160 msec 156 msec 160 msec
 13 10gigabitethernet7-4.core1.nyc4.he.net (2001:470:0:128::1) 344
msec 208 msec 200 msec
 14 10gigabitethernet5-3.core1.lax1.he.net (2001:470:0:10E::1) 276
msec 260 msec 268 msec
 15 10gigabitethernet7-4.core1.fmt2.he.net (2001:470:0:18D::1) 272
msec 272 msec 324 msec
 16 10gigabitethernet2-1.core1.fmt1.he.net (2001:470:0:2D::1) 288 msec
272 msec 276 msec
 17  *  *  *
 18  *  *  *

Confirmed by L3's looking glasses (
http://lg.level3.net/traceroute/traceroute.cgi?site=lvg1&target=www.he.net&ipv6=true
) and my own corporate IPv6 connection from Level 3.

I opened a ticket with Level 3. Anyone else seen this?

-Dave




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