The Tunnel I'm using is in the same region. So no cross country tunneling. :) StrongVPN has 215 servers in 10 US locations, one of which is just down the road from me. So lag times should be negligible.
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Dave Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Chuck Swiger <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 9, 2012, at 5:33 PM, AlbyVA wrote: > >> Does anybody know of an IPv6 OpenVPN service? Currently I have FiOS and > Verizon > >> is blocking just about all useful ports, including NTP. As a result, > I've setup my > >> FreeBSD box with a VPN link using OpenVPN to Strongvpn.com for my NTP > server. > >> Works like a charm so I could put it into the pool. But now if I want > to do the same > >> for v6, I need a similar vpn service that supports v6 and so far I > haven't found one. > > > > Please don't add machines which are behind a VPN tunnel to the NTP pool. > > They will experience additional noisy delays as a consequence of the > > VPN crypto which make them undesirable as timeservers. > > > > (This also applies to most people using RFC-3053 tunnel brokers for IPv6 > connectivity.) > > Not as true for HE's tunnelbroker.net, now that they have tunnel > servers all over the world, so long as you bother to use a > topologically nearby endpoint. Just a few years ago all > tunnelbroker.net IPv6 tunnels terminated in Silicon Valley, but now > there are better choices for most of us. > > The list isn't quite public, but it's not much of a secret. You have > to create a tunnelbroker.net account (at no cost) and sign into it, > then attempt to create a tunnel to get the list: > > http://tunnelbroker.net/new_tunnel.php > > There are currently 11 in North America, 10 in Europe, and 3 in Asia > to choose from. > > Cheers, > Dave Hart >
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