Post by Philip D'AthI do have an IPv6 connection, but can't get to this web site. There
appears to be a lack of connectivity between the two of us.
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There is some content at http://www.ipv6porn.co.nz. (If you have IPv6)
Funnily enough I was discussing this thread in the office just yesterday
and ended up at the same content. Fetching it over v6 is quite
different to fetching it over v4, it seems, and the end user experience
is definitely that this is more choppy.
Given that I'm 9mS from the office, where my tunnel connects to an IPv6
router which I would *really* like to be well-connected over v6,
especially to NZ[1] sites, I thought I'd look a bit harder.
WTF! The route goes via _stockholm_ and *then* via _montreal_!!!!!
Yep. I wouldn't normally use 5 exclamation marks, but I think this
rates...
To be honest I have to rate New Zealand's performance on IPv6 as
abysmal-- compared to the rest of the world. As far as I can ascertain
we have one (1) ISP in New Zealand who appears to be willing to offer
IPv6 connectivity to (normal) customers, and they appear to be forced to
do that through a tunnel to the US of A.
I suspect the situation is just as crappy in Australia, which is why so
far the only place in Australia we have managed a v6 tunnel to is Perth.
***THIS*** ***SUCKS***
IPv6 routes to New Zealand cannot possibly follow reasonable paths until
there are (at the very least) tunnel brokers that can get upstream from
ISPs who are close in a v4 sense.
It is interesting to see IPv6 traceroutes from Europe, because they all
seem to do sane things. IPv6 traceroutes from China or Japan probably
also do, but as far as I can see New Zealand is very much in the v4th
world in this.
Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.
And just for anyone who cares, this is the traceroute from my laptop to
Philip's site. Sure it's arbitrarily crappy because we're both
tunnelling to the US, but there's a whole world of stupidity in the
middle even _with_ that caveat.
1. 2404:130:1:f100::f102:1 0.0% 29 11.2 9.3 5.6 19.4 2.9
2. sl-bb1v6-sj-t-45.sprintv6.net 0.0% 28 174.1 172.8 169.1 180.1 2.0
3. sl-bb1v6-nyc-t-1001.sprintv6.net 0.0% 28 251.7 252.9 245.2 362.8 21.7
4. sl-bb1v6-sto-t-102.sprintv6.net 0.0% 28 344.5 347.8 341.6 419.9 14.4
5. 2001:7f8:d:fb::34 0.0% 28 347.2 347.6 341.8 388.6 8.5
6. 2001:440:1880:3000::15 0.0% 28 418.2 423.9 397.4 593.8 37.7
7. c2sth-ge-3-3-0.sunet.se 0.0% 28 423.2 441.2 406.5 531.0 25.6
8. stockholm2-pos-6-0-0.sunet.se 0.0% 28 424.9 421.3 399.5 551.7 28.1
c1sth-ae3.sunet.se
9. stockholm4-ge12-1-1.sunet.se 0.0% 28 423.5 420.7 398.4 508.4 25.2
stockholm2-POS1.sunet.se
10. se-ov.nordu.net 0.0% 28 379.3 382.7 376.5 435.0 10.9
11. dk-gw2.nordu.net 0.0% 28 376.2 381.4 374.9 400.0 5.9
12. dk-gw.nordu.net 0.0% 28 393.5 381.3 376.2 396.5 4.8
dk-gw.nordu.net
13. 2001:798:15:10aa::d 0.0% 28 382.6 390.0 377.3 528.0 31.1
14. so-6-2-0.rt1.fra.de.geant2.net 0.0% 28 382.3 380.4 376.6 390.0 3.3
15. so-6-0-0.rt1.pra.cz.geant2.net 0.0% 28 377.3 382.2 375.7 418.7 8.8
16. so-7-2-0.rt1.vie.at.geant2.net 0.0% 28 377.5 379.3 375.2 389.6 3.3
17. 2001:1900:5:2::5 0.0% 28 376.7 384.4 374.4 513.9 25.6
18. 2001:1900:5:1::1 3.6% 28 396.0 403.2 391.0 619.4 43.3
19. 2001:7f8:4::1935:1 0.0% 28 442.4 467.0 431.4 650.8 47.7
20. ???
21. ???
22. ???
23. if-7-0.mcore4.njy-newark.ipv6.teleglobe.ne 0.0% 28 432.5 456.4 423.9 617.4 47.5
24. if-12-0.mcore3.njy-newark.ipv6.teleglobe.n 0.0% 28 432.1 450.9 421.2 797.4 69.8
25. if-5-0.core2.nto-newyork.ipv6.teleglobe.ne 0.0% 28 433.6 463.5 421.9 829.8 86.6
26. if-4-0-0.core2.nto-newyork.ipv6.teleglobe. 3.7% 28 462.6 453.2 422.2 798.1 71.2
27. if-5-0.mcore4.mtt-montreal.ipv6.teleglobe. 3.8% 27 448.1 457.6 427.5 766.4 64.8
28. gin-mtt-6bb1.ipv6.teleglobe.net 0.0% 27 448.1 456.8 427.4 732.5 56.8
29. ix-5-0-1.6bb1.mtt-montreal.ipv6.teleglobe. 0.0% 27 450.7 456.1 429.0 702.9 51.2
30. 2001:5c0:0:5::117 3.8% 27 454.6 454.6 431.0 666.3 44.9
[1] We'll have a v6 .nz DNS server on there fairly soon.
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