IPv6 Cogent vs Hurricane Electric

Paul S. contact at winterei.se
Sat Dec 5 02:43:50 UTC 2015


It is worth noting that HE indeed provides the full view, it's the other 
side that has an issue.

(Since HE isn't really a tier 1, their transit relationships with Telia 
and other carriers "save" them)

Cogent -> HE dies with unreachable on the first hop though, and that's 
an issue for Cogent customers.

On 12/5/2015 11:09 AM, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> On 5 December 2015 at 02:43, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>
>>> Or, if you feel that Cogent's stubborn insistence on partitioning the
>>> global v6 internet
>> if A does not peer with B,
>> then for all A and B
>> they are evil partitioners?
>>
>> can we lower the rhetoric?
>>
> They both loses on this. In fact anyone claiming tier 1 status loses here,
> because this illustrates why you can never be single homed on a tier 1
> network. These guys simply do not have the full internet.
>
> Regards,
>
> Baldur




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