On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 04:28, Joe Abley wrote:
On 14 Nov 2003, at 04:26, Barry Murphy wrote:
Can't wait for the ipv6 in auckland... If we go through a provider like orcon for instance, will we be able to still peer via APE?
If you want to be able to reach the rest of the IPv6 internet, you will need a transit provider of some kind. Since it sounds like nobody in New Zealand is offering IPv6 transit, you'll need to look outside the country and gain v6 transit via a tunnel plumbed over IPv4. Andy's docs give some examples of people to talk to; Hurricane Electric is another well-established provider of IPv6 transit over tunnels that I don't think Andy mentions (see http://ipv6tb.he.net/).
I use these guys myself at home but their web site wasn't working when I typed up the notes so I omitted the link. I have confirmed with them that it's OK and it's now back up so I will add it. This one has the advantage that you can get a BGP feed from them as well.
If every v6-reachable network in New Zealand uses tunnels to other countries to obtain v6 transit, then within-NZ v6 traffic will cross oceans, which is sub-optimal. Local peering (at the APE, the WIX or via tunnels plumbed over IPv4 between NZ endpoints) provides a local path so that local v6 traffic can stay local.
The F root nameserver node at the APE will happily peer with anybody else there over IPv6. F has been able to be queried over an IPv6 address for some time (2001:500::1035), although there are currently no AAAA records in the root zone. An application to add an AAAA record for F has been submitted to IANA, but has not yet been actioned.
Joe and I will arrange peering with the APE6 route server ASAP so you'll be able to see F-root via that mechanism if you peer with us or you can arrange to peer directly as well from what Joe has posted here.