On Oct 12, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
I can understand why some folks would say stop, but unfortunately Europe has the closest public 6to4 relays to the US, and our own providers don't seem to want to put any up.
There are quite a few 6to4 relays outside Europe. I think the problem more is that a lot of providers haven't gotten the hang of routing to an anycasted prefix that so many people are announcing. Or making sure 6to4 is fast is so far down their priority list they just don't care. Either way, peering seems to be a lot more dense in Europe, so they're more likely to be peering with someone announcing a 6to4 relay there. Prefer sending traffic to someone you're peering with (even if it's further away) to someone local that you have to pay for, and you don't always get sensible routing on a prefix like this. From the best that I can tell, here's a reasonably complete list of who are running 6to4 relays... Its not easy to tell what country someone's relay is in, but this is probably close. Oceania/Asia: Australia: 1221 Telstra Korea: 17832 NISA Europe: Denmark: 1835 FSK Net Estonia: 3327 Linxtelecom Finland: 1741 FUNET Germany: 286 kpn.de 5430 Freenet 8767 m-net.de 12816 mwn 15598 IP Exchange 20640 Titan 29259 IABG Teleport 35244 kms.de Italy: 12779 itgate.net Netherlands: 1101 SURFNet 8954 InTouch 26943 Your.Org 31383 Computel Portugal: 1930 FCCN Spain: 16206 Abared Sweden: 1257 Tele2 16150 GlobalTransit Switzerland: 559 switch.ch United Kingdom: 5400 BT North America: US: 59 University of Wisconsin 109 Cisco 1239 Sprint 3344 Kewlio 5050 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 6175 Sprint 7019 NTT 10533 Ottawa Internet Exchange 19255 Your.Org 19782 Indiana University 25795 ARP Networks