Broadband Tech > IPv6 > Where does your 6to4 relay address (192.88.99.1) go?

reply to justin236

Re: Where does your 6to4 relay address (192.88.99.1) go?

This is coming from 71.216.22.6 ...

traceroute to 192.88.99.1 (192.88.99.1), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  [local nat box]  0.125 ms  0.197 ms  0.086 ms
 2  ptld-dsl-gw11-203.ptld.qwest.net (207.225.84.203)  39.291 ms  39.286 ms  38.867 ms
 3  ptld-agw1.inet.qwest.net (207.225.85.81)  39.424 ms  38.634 ms  39.117 ms
 4  por-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.130.65)  39.393 ms *  39.891 ms
 5  sea-core-02.inet.qwest.net (67.14.32.18)  43.299 ms  43.809 ms  43.580 ms
 6  sea-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.26.58)  43.314 ms  43.033 ms  43.826 ms
 7  sl-bb21-sea-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.113)  43.091 ms  43.279 ms  43.825 ms
 8  sl-bb1v6-sea-8-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.6.38)  44.072 ms *  43.972 ms

192.88.99.1 is the 6 to 4 relay anycast address. ISPs should ideally configure their BGP routers to choose the closest 6 to 4 relay peer. If the ISP doesn't care, it seems like most people wind up getting sent to Europe.

Got a Linksys router with DD-WRT?
»www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6
Or a Linksys with OpenWRT?
»wiki.openwrt.org/IPv6_howto

Mac OS X?
»www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/hints/howt···osx.html

Windows?
Google for it. Lots of info out there.

reply to justin236
I got this some what the same to yours but ended up in Relay, MD instead of seattle or where ever sea is.

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Tracing route to 192.88.99.1 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.1
2 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms 66.173.189.249
3 88 ms 22 ms 22 ms 64.83.67.117
4 38 ms 25 ms 31 ms 64.83.67.30
5 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms 64.83.67.145
6 29 ms 28 ms 29 ms 66.16.64.61
7 32 ms 32 ms 33 ms sl-gw19-rly-4-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.150.137]

8 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms sl-bb20-rly-3-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.14.25]
9 34 ms 33 ms 33 ms 192.88.99.1