I do not follow the logic. If a CDN says they have a gigantic peering node in DC, how does that tell you where they put on-net servers?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to put servers on-net in OKC or SLC because they do _NOT_ have large peering nodes there? Locality is important. Akamai has thousands of nodes in a hundred or so countries. While they have a lot of peering, I have trouble thinking their nodes are all next to large IXPs. (OK, I know they are not, but let’s not get into that.) Plus this seems very US/EU centric. What about places without a lot large IXPs, like South America, Africa, South-East Asia, etc.? Finally, your logic seems a bit self-contradictory: “They won’t tell you where their big network nodes are. But if you look in this free, public database, you can find their big network nodes." -- TTFN, patrick > On Dec 19, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Mehmet Akcin <meh...@akcin.net> wrote: > > I don’t think anyone really would tell where their critical network assets > are but obviously you can guesstimate by looking where they have connection > points available. > >> On Dec 19, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: >> >> PeeringDB will tell you where they connect. I do not think anyone puts stuff >> into PeeringDB when they have on-net nodes. >> >> In general, only the big three (Akamai, Netflix, Google) have significant >> deployments inside eyeball networks. Exceptions to every rule and all that, >> but if you pick random large eyeball network, chances are very, very high >> they have no one other than those three - if they have any at all. >> >> -- >> TTFN, >> patrick >> >>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 10:35 AM, Mehmet Akcin <meh...@akcin.net> wrote: >>> >>> looking at peeringdb -- http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=16509 might >>> give you an idea where they are. >>> >>> mehmet >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Ahmed Munaf <ahmed.dala...@hrins.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> Does anyone know if AWS amazon “cloudfront”, cloud flare, Microsoft … etc, >>>> hosting their servers on other party providers? >>>> just like what GGC and Akamai do by hosting their servers on other ISP’s >>>> datacenter! >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> >>
