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I literally just fell out of my chair from laughing.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/22/2013 11:58 AM, Oliver Ddin
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US">We received our /32 IPv6 block from ARIN awhile
back but before we could do anything with it we needed to do
some hardware / IOS upgrades on our backbone. We got enough
of that finished last week that we decided to “roll out”
IPv6 and see how things looked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US">After a couple days of trouble shooting why
none of the engineers in our data center could reach their
Hurricane Electric Tunnel networks at home (and vice versa),
I stopped looking at our backbone and started looking at
Google.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US">It appears that the squabble started in 2009
between Cogent and HE is still in progress. I was wondering
if anyone on this list had any “inside” information about
the problem and whether or not there was an end in sight.
It seems to me that having a disconnect between two major
players is going to hinder IPv6 adaptation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">This
isn’t a squabble per se – HE have always expressed that they
are more than happy to peer with Cogent – They even sent
them a cake at one point. Nonetheless, the whole thing
ultimately comes down to competition; Cogent’s opinion is
(cough cough, allegedly) that HE should be paying them for
peering. Sensibly, HE hasn’t acquiesced to that and so we
practically end up with two IPv6 Internets – I’ll leave it
to you to decide who is running the better connected one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">I
don’t think there’s any end in sight, but maybe one day
Cogent’s IPv6 prefix reachability will become ghastly enough
for them and/or their customers that they change their tune.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Regardless
of that of course, this speaks to exactly why single-homing
yourself is typically not in your best interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Oliver
Ddin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Senior
Network Engineer & Chief IPv6 Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">ZeroLag
Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">ZeroLag
- Embracing IPv6:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.zerolag.com/ipv6">http://www.zerolag.com/ipv6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Disclaimer:
All content, opinions and statements herein are entirely my
own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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