Poor routes to Dallas

[xan]

Hi,

Thanks for this great service.  Once I saw you had a presence in Dallas, I figured it would be worthwhile to take the IPv6 plunge.

However, the route to your server there is pretty convoluted.  I'm in Austin, on RoadRunner.  I have a couple of servers in Dallas (at the Infomart) and I get <20ms pings to them.  But the latency to the HE Dallas node is 60-70ms.

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traceroute to 216.218.224.42 (216.218.224.42), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  192.168.153.1 (192.168.153.1)  0.653 ms  0.588 ms  0.439 ms
2  10.39.224.1 (10.39.224.1)  7.577 ms  16.935 ms  9.501 ms
3  gig0-2.austtxb-ubr3.austin.rr.com (66.68.1.206)  8.448 ms  8.667 ms  9.315 ms
4  Gi0-4-1-4.austtxrdcsc-rtr2.austin.rr.com (24.27.13.170)  9.914 ms  14.118 ms  10.779 ms
5  gig6-3-0.dllatxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com (72.179.205.76)  18.945 ms  16.145 ms  14.862 ms
6  te-9-1.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.79.180.81)  33.770 ms xe-4-3-0.edge3.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.79.180.65)  16.761 ms te-9-2.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net (8.9.232.77)  15.367 ms
7  ae-33-89.car3.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.19.133)  23.523 ms  20.523 ms  14.869 ms
8  4.68.63.194 (4.68.63.194)  62.237 ms  61.995 ms  65.418 ms
9  las-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.80.13)  66.455 ms  61.251 ms  60.271 ms
10  sjo-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.80.18)  72.793 ms  61.620 ms  73.429 ms
11  hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net (213.248.86.54)  60.867 ms  64.808 ms  66.966 ms
12  10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.lax1.he.net (72.52.92.22)  74.737 ms  76.306 ms  63.168 ms
13  10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.dal1.he.net (72.52.92.58)  72.072 ms  60.079 ms  64.158 ms
14  tserv8.dal1.ipv6.he.net (216.218.224.42)  60.510 ms  61.990 ms  59.116 ms


I appear to be going to California and back.

[broquea]

Contact RR and ask them to peer with us :) Or if you have a decent contact, we'll email them, in addition to the emails we send out already.
Our peering information is public: http://he.net/adm/peering.html

[xan]

Okay, will do.  I don't have a contact for you, but if I end up reaching somebody worthwhile, I'll pass it along.  Thanks for the speedy response and for the great tunnel!