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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 lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">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 lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">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 lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">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 lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Oliver Ddin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Senior Network Engineer & Chief IPv6 Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">ZeroLag Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">ZeroLag - Embracing IPv6:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.zerolag.com/ipv6">http://www.zerolag.com/ipv6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Disclaimer: All content, opinions and statements herein are entirely my own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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