[AusNOG] IPv6: Where's my tunnel?

[Noel Butler]

On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 17:36 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:

> In message <1362634327.5180.6.camel at tardis>, Noel Butler writes:
> > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:25 -0800, Mark Smith wrote:
> >     > From: Matt Richards
> > 
> > > >=20
> > > > I'd love to turn IPv6 on for our own network, but neither of our upstre=
> > ams=20
> > > > support it (yes, i know, tunnels. no. i'm not doing that).
> > > >=20
> > >=20
> > > Why not? I did for around 10 years.
> > 
> > 
> > For me at least, because it was bloody painful (speed)... I enable it on
> > my pissy little home webserver, but gave up using it for surfing and
> > pretty much anything else, wont even use it for mail.
> > 
> > I rather zippy websites and stuff, than trying to look cool... not that
> > I could ever look that but  yeah  :)
> 
> Except for traffic that goes back to Australia I really don't see any
> noticable difference between tunneled IPv6 and IPv4.
> 


Google for one was horrific is response times, and I mean response as in
http, half the sites I used at the time were same.
I would  put a lot down to DNS, particularly noticed is delayed ssh
sessions

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