RE: Cogent & Google IPv6

[Damien Burke <damien () supremebytes com>]

Not sure. I got the same thing today as well.

Is this some kind of ipv6 war?

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Ian Clark
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:25 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Cogent & Google IPv6

Anyone know what's actually going on here?  We received the following information from the two of them, and this just 
started a week or so ago.


*From Cogent, the transit provider for a branch office of ours:*

Dear Cogent Customer,

Thank you for contacting Cogent Customer Support for information about the Google IPv6 addresses you are unable to 
reach.

Google uses transit providers to announce their IPv4 routes to Cogent.

At this time however, Google has chosen not to announce their IPv6 routes to Cogent through transit providers.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and will notify you if there is an update to the situation.



*From Google (re: Cogent):*

Unfortunately it seems that your transit provider does not have IPv6 connectivity with Google. We suggest you ask your 
transit provider to look for alternatives to interconnect with us.

Google maintains an open interconnect policy for IPv6 and welcomes any network to peer with us for access via IPv6 (and 
IPv4). For those networks that aren't able, or chose not to peer with Google via IPv6, they are able to reach us 
through any of a large number of transit providers.

For more information in how to peer directly with Google please visit https://peering.google.com


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Ian Clark
Lead Network Engineer
DreamHost