ipv6? - Was: [ILUG] Good DNS in Ireland

[Daniel Shaw]

Caution: Thread Hijack ahead

>  (who of course has working IPv6 connectivity thus any delays there
>   would not affect me ;)
> 

I've also got ipv6 connectivity through a tunnel broker (Sixxs). Can I 
ask if you have native ipv6 or a tunnel also and in either case through 
who/where. Just curious about the ipv6 options and the ease and 
performance out there at the moment.

Also, if there's anyone from Heanet on the list, is accessing 
ftp.heanet.ie through ipv6 purposefully slower than ipv4. I've made my 
Ubuntu apt and my Gentoo emerge forced to ipv4, as the ipv6 maxs out at 
about 10% of what ipv4 gives. For a short while when I first got ipv6 up 
a few months ago that wasn't the case and ipv4 and v6 had similar speeds 
to heanet.ie mirrors.

On the subject of mirrors to choose: Are there any other NTL broadband 
users on the list? If so, do you also seem to find that a traceroute to 
anywhere seems to go to Holland as the first hop outside of NTL's 
network and then through Great Britain back to anywhere else in Ireland 
(like heanet.ie, blacknight.ie, eircom.net, blueface.ie). Is there no 
decent peering point in Dublin? Or are all the Irish sites actually 
hosted in continental Europe and the UK? Should I be using Dutch mirrors 
for all my distro updates?

Cheers,
Daniel