AS overview
Test target: 2a14:1080::1 · static prefix probe · address space: PA · prefixes announced: 1
prefix(es): 2a14:1080::/29
Targets & per-vantage-point probe results (1 target(s) across 3 vantage point(s))
Source codes (hover any badge for full description): CUR=curated · NS/SOA/MX=DNS records · SPF=SPF TXT · DRV=holder-derived (www, ns1, mail, gw, …) · ATL=RIPE Atlas · PDB=PeeringDB · WHOIS=RIPE whois · RDAP=RIPE RDAP · HIT=IPv6 Hitlist · RTR=in-prefix path hop (router) · PRB=static prefix probe · SYN=synthetic prefix::1 fallback
| Target IP / hostname | Source | NL host (go6lab) | ITA host (Karsolink) | SLO host (6connect) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ping | 1500B | :80 | :443 | reached | ping | 1500B | :80 | :443 | reached | ping | 1500B | :80 | :443 | reached | ||
2a14:1080::1 | prb | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ? | - | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ? | - | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ? | - |
RPKI & ASPA
0 of 1 prefix(es) covered by a valid ROA, 1 not-found.
| Prefix | RPKI state | Reason | Covering VRP(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
2a14:1080::/29 | - not-found | no covering VRP |
Random-IP probe (yarrp) into the AS' prefixes
We probed 15 arbitrary IPv6 address(es) inside AS215873's announced prefix(es). No router inside the prefix responded. The deepest visible hop was 2a02:2ae0:10d::2 at hop 13 - that router answers ICMPv6 Echo. This is not in AS215873's announced prefix; operationally it's the AS-edge / peering interface (often on an IXP peering address or an upstream's /127 link). The traceroute boundary is the AS edge: ICMPv6 Time-Exceeded responses from anything inside this AS are filtered.
ICMPv6 Type 2 (Packet Too Big) acceptance - active test
Vantage points disagree about Type 2 acceptance - transit ASes on one path may be filtering Type 2 even though the destination's stack accepts it on another path:
- NL host (go6lab): inconclusive: no Echo Reply after PTB (probe 1500B). (ICMPv6 Echo + forged PTB)
- ITA host (Karsolink): inconclusive: no Echo Reply to 1300-byte probe. (ICMPv6 Echo + forged PTB)
- SLO host (6connect): Type 2 honored. Forged PTB accepted; next response shrunk. (ICMPv6 Echo + forged PTB)
Why they disagree - reachability mismatch: One vantage couldn't drive a flow at all to this destination (no Echo Reply or no responding TCP port), so the active test had no behavioural change to observe. The other vantage's verdict is the only meaningful one here.
Failure detail — what to grep in your logs
| vantage | our source | your target | method | result | tested (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| go6lab | 2a00:8642:42::75 | 2a14:1080::1 | icmp6-echo | inconclusive | 2026-05-30T12:48:54Z |
| karsolink | 2a12:d8c0:105a:9001::a154 | 2a14:1080::1 | icmp6-echo | no_echo | 2026-05-30T13:00:03Z |
| odin | 2607:fae0:a000::42 | 2a14:1080::1 | icmp6-echo | honored | 2026-05-30T12:48:33Z |
Attempt log (go6lab):
icmp6-echo→ inconclusive (size_before=1460, size_after=None): no Echo Reply after PTB (probe 1500B)dns-tcp→ no_tcp: connect failed: timed outtls→ no_tcp: TLS connect failedhttp→ no_tcp: tcp/80 not open
Attempt log (karsolink):
icmp6-echo→ no_echo: no Echo Reply to 1300-byte probedns-tcp→ no_tcp: connect failed: timed outtls→ no_tcp: TLS connect failedhttp→ no_tcp: tcp/80 not open
Attempt log (odin):
icmp6-echo→ honored (size_before=1460, size_after=None)dns-tcp→ no_tcp: connect failed: timed outtls→ no_tcp: TLS connect failedhttp→ no_tcp: tcp/80 not open
To match the corresponding ICMPv6 packet on your side (host firewall, AS edge, or transit tap), look for our PTBs around the timestamps above:
sudo tcpdump -i any -n -e 'icmp6 and ip6[40] = 2 and (src host 2607:fae0:a000::42 or src host 2a00:8642:42::75 or src host 2a12:d8c0:105a:9001::a154)'
If you see our PTBs arriving but the destination's TCP/Echo flow does not shrink, the drop is in the destination kernel (cause 3 below). If you don't see them at all, drop is upstream of you (cause 2). If you only see them from one of our two source IPs, the drop is path-asymmetric — one transit on the asymmetric route is filtering, the other is not.
Where the path divergence is
Per-vantage probe + verdict (headline):
- go6lab: probe
icmp6-echo→ verdictinconclusive - karsolink: probe
icmp6-echo→ verdictno_echo - odin: probe
icmp6-echo→ verdicthonored
Full per-method matrix (all four methods run at each vantage):
| vantage | icmp6-echo | dns-tcp | tls | http |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| go6lab | inconclusive | no_tcp | no_tcp | no_tcp |
| karsolink | no_echo | no_tcp | no_tcp | no_tcp |
| odin | honored | no_tcp | no_tcp | no_tcp |
These vantage-level disagreements are rooted somewhere in the forward paths. Joining each per-vantage traceroute against the IP→AS lookup from our global yarrp mesh, the first hop where the paths land in different ASes is the most likely site of the offending filter / unreachable AS / Type 2 drop.
Suspect transit ASes (ranked by how often they appear at the divergence point on the path of the worse-classifying vantage): AS702, AS174, AS50673.
- From go6lab (open/Type-2=inconclusive) the path enters AS174 at hop 7; from karsolink (open/Type-2=no_echo) the same hop is in AS702. Last common AS: AS702. The disagreement is most likely rooted in one of those two transit ASes.
- From go6lab (open/Type-2=inconclusive) the path enters AS50673 at hop 3; from odin (open/Type-2=honored) the same hop is in AS56635. Last common AS: AS702. The disagreement is most likely rooted in one of those two transit ASes.
- From karsolink (open/Type-2=no_echo) the path enters AS702 at hop 7; from odin (open/Type-2=honored) the same hop is in AS6939. Last common AS: AS702. The disagreement is most likely rooted in one of those two transit ASes.
Diagnosis is path-level, not packet-level: it tells you which transit AS is the prime suspect, not exactly which firewall rule is to blame. Use the tracepath6 output below (when available) for per-hop PMTU evidence on the same path.
✨ Diagnostic interpretation
Per-hop PTB acceptance walk
From the local vantage, we walk the forward path hop-by-hop, sending each hop a 1500-byte ICMPv6 Echo, then a forged PTB (MTU=1280) sourced from us, then another 1500-byte Echo. If the second reply arrives fragmented or smaller, that hop honoured the PTB. If unchanged, it didn't. The first ✗ in an otherwise-✓ path is the most likely filter location. Cross-country aggregation: see the global PTB filter atlas for transit ASes ranked by filter rate across all measurements.
First break at hop 10: AS702 (UUNET - Verizon Business, US) -- this is the most likely site of the offending PTB filter. Hop IP: 2001:600:801::12.
| # | hop IP | AS | Holder | PTB acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2607:fae0:a000::2 | AS8038 | 6CONNECT - 6connect, Inc., US | - skipped (CoPP) |
| 2 | * | - | - (no IP) | |
| 3 | 2a03:a100:0:201:1::1 | AS56635 | XENYA - XENYA inzeniring, proizvodnja in | ✓ honored |
| 4 | 2001:470:1:5be::1 | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US | ? no_response |
| 5 | 2001:470:0:578::1 | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US | ? no_response |
| 6 | 2001:470:0:7ef::1 | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US | ? no_response |
| 7 | 2001:470:e:5a::2 | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US | ? no_response |
| 8 | * | - | - (no IP) | |
| 9 | 2001:7f8::2be:0:2 | - | NA | ? no_response |
| 10 | 2001:600:801::12 | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US | ✗ not_honored |
| 11 | 2a02:2ae0:10f::56 | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US | ? no_response |
Tests host-mode PTB acceptance (PTBs aimed at the hop itself). A router that honours PTBs to itself can still be filtering PTBs transiting through it; this is one indicator, not proof of full PTB transparency. Hops in CoPP-rate-limit ranges are skipped to avoid false signals.
From NL host (go6lab) open
filter likely at: (none) · min PMTU on path: 1500
Path (traceroute + mtr + PTR)
| # | IP / PTR | RTT | mtr loss | AS | AS holder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2a00:8642:42::3 | 1.1ms | 0% | AS203993 | STEFFANN-DC-AS - S.J.M. Steffann, NL |
| 2 | gw.friends.steffann.nl 2a00:8642:1000:f000::1 | 1.9ms | 0%* | AS203993 | STEFFANN-DC-AS - S.J.M. Steffann, NL |
| 3 | 2a00:1ca8:1::194 | 2.2ms | 10% | AS50673 | Serverius-as - Serverius Holding B.V., NL |
| 4 | 2a03:3f40::10:41 | 2.5ms | 0% | AS50673 | Serverius-as - Serverius Holding B.V., NL |
| 5 | * | - | 70% | - | |
| 6 | * | - | 30% | - | |
| 7 | be2950.ccr42.fra05.atlas.cogentco.com 2001:550:0:1000::9a36:482a | 11.4ms | 0% | AS174 | COGENT-174 - Cogent Communications, LLC, US |
| 8 | * | - | 70% | - | |
| 9 | 2001:600:202::d9 | 10.2ms | 0% | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US |
| 10 | xe-11-0-0.GW6.MLN7.ALTER.NET 2001:600:801::12 | 25.7ms | 0% | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US |
| 11 | 2a02:2ae0:10f::56 | 45.6ms | 0% | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US |
Rate-limited ICMPv6: hop 3, hop 5, hop 6, hop 8 (loss between 5% and 95% across mtr cycles - the router replies but only sometimes).
tracepath -6
1?: [LOCALHOST] 0.044ms pmtu 1500
1: 2a00:8642:42::3 1.358ms
1: 2a00:8642:42::3 1.694ms
2: gw.friends.steffann.nl 2.225ms
3: 2a00:1ca8:1::194 2.820ms
4: 2a03:3f40::10:41 3.071ms
5: no reply
6: no reply
7: be3343.ccr41.fra05.atlas.cogentco.com 11.786ms
8: no reply
9: 2001:600:202::d9 11.009ms asymm 7
10: xe-11-0-0.GW6.MLN7.ALTER.NET 25.937ms asymm 11
11: 2a02:2ae0:10f::56 40.758ms asymm 12
12: 2a02:2ae0:10d::3 47.845ms asymm 13
13: 2a14:1080::2 53.762ms reached
Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 13 back 13 From ITA host (Karsolink) open
filter likely at: (none) · min PMTU on path: 1500
Path (traceroute + mtr + PTR)
| # | IP / PTR | RTT | mtr loss | AS | AS holder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | karsolink-01.net.karsolink.com 2a12:d8c0:105a:9001::1 | 0.5ms | 0%* | AS204471 | KARSOLINK - 2S Computers SRL, IT |
| 2 | 2a12:d8c0:109f:121::a1 | 0.4ms | 0%* | AS204471 | KARSOLINK - 2S Computers SRL, IT |
| 3 | 2a12:d8c0:101f:6::1 | 10.0ms | 0% | AS204471 | KARSOLINK - 2S Computers SRL, IT |
| 4 | 2a03:b020:1:51::a | 10.3ms | 0% | AS41327 | FIBERTELECOM-AS - Fiber Telecom S.p.A., IT |
| 5 | 2a03:b020::244 | 19.3ms | 0% | AS41327 | FIBERTELECOM-AS - Fiber Telecom S.p.A., IT |
| 6 | et-2-0-2.BR4.FFT1.alter.net 2001:7f8::2be:0:2 | 17.8ms | 0% | - | NA |
| 7 | xe-0-0-0.GW6.MLN7.ALTER.NET 2001:600:801::e | 26.3ms | 0% | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US |
| 8 | 2a02:2ae0:10f::56 | 44.4ms | 10% | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US |
Rate-limited ICMPv6: hop 8 (loss between 5% and 95% across mtr cycles - the router replies but only sometimes).
tracepath -6
1?: [LOCALHOST] 0.032ms pmtu 1500
1: karsolink-01.net.karsolink.com 0.549ms
1: karsolink-01.net.karsolink.com 0.724ms
2: 2a12:d8c0:109f:121::a1 0.946ms
3: 2a12:d8c0:101f:6::1 10.964ms
4: 2a03:b020:1:51::a 10.810ms
5: 2a03:b020::244 19.625ms
6: et-2-0-2.br4.fft1.alter.net 18.021ms
7: xe-11-0-0.GW6.MLN7.ALTER.NET 27.191ms
8: 2a02:2ae0:10f::56 48.144ms
9: 2a02:2ae0:10d::2 55.108ms reached
Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 9 back 9 From SLO host (6connect) openRFC 4890 ✓
filter likely at: (none) · min PMTU on path: 1500
Path (traceroute + mtr + PTR)
| # | IP / PTR | RTT | mtr loss | AS | AS holder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fw1-lju.6connect.com 2607:fae0:a000::2 | 0.3ms | 0%* | AS8038 | 6CONNECT - 6connect, Inc., US |
| 2 | * | - | 0%* | - | |
| 3 | 2a03:a100:0:201:1::1 | 1.0ms | 10% | AS56635 | XENYA - XENYA inzeniring, proizvodnja in trgovina, d.o.o. Ljubljana, SI |
| 4 | e0-1.core1.lju1.he.net 2001:470:1:5be::1 | 1.7ms | 0% | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US |
| 5 | 100ge0-0-0-5.core1.vie1.he.net 2001:470:0:578::1 | 9.2ms | 0% | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US |
| 6 | 100ge0-0-0-19.core2.fra2.he.net 2001:470:0:7ef::1 | 18.9ms | 0% | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US |
| 7 | be3.core4.fra1.he.net 2001:470:e:5a::2 | 18.3ms | - | AS6939 | HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric LLC, US |
| 8 | * | - | - | - | |
| 9 | et-2-0-2.BR4.FFT1.alter.net 2001:7f8::2be:0:2 | 16.9ms | 0% | - | NA |
| 10 | xe-11-0-0.GW6.MLN7.ALTER.NET 2001:600:801::12 | 23.7ms | 0% | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US |
| 11 | 2a02:2ae0:10f::56 | 42.1ms | 0% | AS702 | UUNET - Verizon Business, US |
Rate-limited ICMPv6: hop 3 (loss between 5% and 95% across mtr cycles - the router replies but only sometimes).
tracepath -6
1?: [LOCALHOST] 0.074ms pmtu 1500
1: fw1-lju.6connect.com 0.547ms
1: fw1-lju.6connect.com 0.487ms
2: no reply
3: no reply
4: e0-1.core1.lju1.he.net 2.695ms
5: 100ge0-0-0-5.core1.vie1.he.net 7.835ms
6: 100ge0-0-0-19.core2.fra2.he.net 18.613ms asymm 7
7: be3.core4.fra1.he.net 20.457ms asymm 8
8: no reply
9: et-2-0-2.BR4.FFT1.alter.net 15.434ms asymm 6
10: xe-11-0-0.GW6.MLN7.ALTER.NET 23.934ms asymm 8
11: 2a02:2ae0:10f::56 45.401ms asymm 8
12: 2a02:2ae0:10d::3 48.359ms asymm 10
13: 2a14:1080::2 45.529ms reached
Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 13 back 10