Upstream Provider not Transitting IPv6 Packets

Event Started
2025-01-17 11:23
Report Published
2025-01-17 11:24
Last Updated
2025-02-02 23:16
Event Finished
Ongoing

We've raised a ticket with AS20860, one of our transit providers in Manchester, who are not forwarding IPv6 packets to us.

Timeline (most recent first)
  • 2025-02-01
    12:00:00

    We currently have this transit link set to "no announce" and this has solved problems, further confirming that the problem is with that transit provider.

  • 2025-01-28
    17:01:00

    Some more back and forth.

  • 2025-01-24
    11:26:00

    We have been told that this is still with the provider's network team.

  • 2025-01-24
    10:50:00

    We have chased for an update.

  • 2025-01-17
    11:24:00

    Currently we are observing IPv6 packets coming into our network from e.g. Cogent are being dropped within AS20860:

    6    2001:550:0:1000::9a19:6ad    be2195.rcr21.par05.atlas.cogentco.com174    1.782 ms    *    *
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10    2001:978:2:20::17:2        174    9.647 ms    9.124 ms    9.479 ms
11    2001:1b40:f000:10a:202::2    be900.asr01.dc13.as20860.net    20860    15.03 ms    *    *
12    2001:1b40:f000:3222::1    3222.core2.dc6.as20860.net    20860    146.449 ms    226.629 ms    217.408 ms
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