Facebook doesn't have a route to my ISP's (Cogeco) IPv6 space?

Thu Dec 20 19:48:12 UTC 2018

Well known problem.

You can use our tunnel broker connection (tb.netassist.ua) as a workaround.

17.12.18 22:01, Brian J. Murrell пише:
> I've been trying to figure out why I can reach an IPv6 address at
> Facebook (2a03:2880:f012:3:face:b00c:0:1) through (only) one of my two
> Internet connections as well as via an HE IPv6 tunnel but not the other
> of my two ISP connections
> 
> At one point in time a traceroute was dying inside of he.net:
> 
>  Host                                      Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>  1. 2001:1970:5261:d600::1                  0.0%     7    2.1   1.3   0.7   2.9   0.8
>  2. 2001:1970:4000:82::1                    0.0%     7   10.0  14.0   8.3  37.9  10.6
>  3. 2001:1970:0:1a6::1                     16.7%     7   13.2 215.5  10.8 1031. 455.9
>  4. he.ip6.torontointernetxchange.net       0.0%     7   12.3  12.9  11.2  15.3   1.6
>  5. 100ge9-2.core2.chi1.he.net              0.0%     7   23.6  23.0  21.3  27.6   2.2
>  6. 100ge15-2.core1.chi1.he.net             0.0%     7   21.7  22.5  21.6  24.9   1.2
>  7. 100ge12-1.core1.atl1.he.net             0.0%     7   34.2  35.1  34.1  36.1   0.7
>  8. 100ge5-1.core1.tpa1.he.net              0.0%     7   49.1  46.6  44.8  49.1   1.5
>  9. 100ge12-1.core1.mia1.he.net             0.0%     7   51.6  54.5  50.5  73.3   8.3
> 10. ???
> 
> But I think it getting that far time was an anomaly and frankly it
> usually dies even before exiting my ISP's (Cogeco) network like this:
> 
>  Host                                       Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>  1. 2001:1970:5261:d600::1                   0.0%    33    0.6   0.7   0.6   1.0   0.1
>  2. 2001:1970:4000:82::1                     0.0%    33    8.2  10.8   8.1  40.5   5.6
>  3. 2001:1970:0:1a7::1                      15.2%    33   23.4  20.1  16.5  23.4   1.5
>  4. 2001:1970:0:61::1                       33.3%    33   16.8  17.6  14.5  25.9   2.5
>  5. 2001:1978:1300::1                        0.0%    33   16.0  17.5  14.2  29.6   3.1
>  6. 2001:1978:203::45                        0.0%    33   30.7  30.7  28.4  35.1   1.7
>  7. ???
> 
> When I asked the kind folks at he.net for some advice about the problem
> (i.e. in the first traceroute above) their diagnosis was that
> Facebook's IPv6 router(s) likely didn't have a route back to my Cogeco
> IPv6 address.
> 
> Trying to talk to my ISP (again, Cogeco) has been impossible.  One
> simply cannot reach the people who know more than how to reset your
> router and configure your e-mail.
> 
> I wonder how I could go any further with this to confirm the diagnosis
> that Facebook doesn't have a route to the Cogeco network's IPv6 address
> space given that I only have access to my end of the path.
> 
> Cheers,
> b.
> 