[kwlug-disc] Hurricane Electric IPv6 Tunnel Broker

[Chris Irwin]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:34:55PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) wrote:
> If all you’re after is secondary DNS service, Hurricane Electric (he.net) provides excellent secondary DNS service for free. That’s who I’ve been using for the last several years. 
> 
> They’re also the IPv6 gurus and offer a range of services, but I can only speak for their secondary DNS.

Getting somewhat off-topic, but I'm a very happy user of their IPv6
Tunnel Broker service, and have been for quite a number of months. My
whole home is configured for IPv6 (very little effort was actually
required beyond configuring my router).

    https://tunnelbroker.net/

Teksavvy actually peers with HE in Toronto, so I configured my IPv6
tunnel endpoint to be based in Toronto, so there's very little in extra
hops due to the underlying tunnel.

As a matter of fact, I've actually had some things *faster* via the IPv6
tunnel. This is likely due to some more favourable routes, less
congestion, etc. Still, was not what I expected.

For example, latency to Google via IPv4:

    $ ping google.com -4 -c 25 -q
    PING google.com (172.217.3.142) 56(84) bytes of data.
    --- google.com ping statistics ---
    25 packets transmitted, 25 received, 0% packet loss, time 24034ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.388/23.727/91.871/15.014 ms

And Google's IPv6 latency:

    $ ping google.com -6 -c 25 -q
    PING google.com(yyz08s09-in-x0e.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:400b:806::200e)) 56 data bytes
    --- google.com ping statistics ---
    25 packets transmitted, 25 received, 0% packet loss, time 24035ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.206/14.764/19.963/2.219 ms

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Chris Irwin

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