On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ewen McNeill wrote:
In message <20020115230309.H1724(a)buffoon.automagic.org>, Joe Abley writes:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:00:02PM +1300, Chris Hellberg wrote:
I've got /48 block from freenet6 that could be peered directly with instead of bouncing back off the states. [... Only WIX, only one address in use...]
Well, there's no reason we couldn't make a virtual IX. I have a machine in Auckland that could probably be shifted to the APE for the purpose; a v6-in-v4 tunnel from Wellington to Auckland sucks a bit, but not as much as a v6-in-v4 tunnel from Wellington to the US :)
I suspect that we'd have to tunnel it outside of Citylink/APE at least for the moment -- for all the same reasons that v6 is being tunnelled at present most other places. It's also a whole lot easier to get things started that way. And as you say, a Wellington<->Auckland tunnel would be no where near as much of an issue as Wellington<->US.
All that said, none of these people (including me) have "public" v6 space, and none of them are providers that could justify the cost of getting even "small ISP" sized chunks of v6 space. Something in the order of a few dozen addresses worth, costing very little indeed (or suballocated out of someone else's larger allocation) might be practical though.
<<snipped>> For those who don't have any public ip address space, www.freenet6.net can provide for free a ::/48 netblock to any instantly (as long as you give a handle and email address) that is publicly routable on the 6bone through a ipv4 tunnel. Of course as mentioned before the 6bone route for that block goes via the states. Like Joe said, there's nothing stopping us setting up tunnels between ourselves for any blocks we've got from somewhere like freenet6 setting a lower routing metric, etc across peering points. There are three places in NZ with a NLA - Canterbury Uni, Clear and Auckland Uni. Maybe if you ask nicely they could delegate an SLA out :) Chris - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog