Hi All,
While Matt Jansen was at Akamai he had a great talk on traffic engineering
for CDNs:
https://www.slideshare.net/bdnog/traffic-engineering-for-cdns-54701924
I sat his tutorial at bdNOG3 & it was totally worthwhile.
Cheers,
Jon
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 07:58, Bruce Forster wrote:
> Tom,
Tom, although technically correct its not really in the interest of the
transit provider to do this.
If they chose to stop sending the prefixes to the cache, it doesn't mean
that all of a sudden it will now route via Peering.
You may find it still comes in to the network via iptransit but on a pat
Well, since his actual account is moderated :)
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 17:08, Nathan Brookfield <
nathan.brookfi...@simtronic.com.au> wrote:
> You lost me when your sender name is Thomas Bishop but email address says
> Darryl Huges
>
> On 2 Jul 2019, at 16:53, thomas bishop wrote:
>
> Hi L
Your transit provider should provide you with BGP communities. You can tag
your routes to the transit not to export to the CDN, which might help steer
away. Ask your provider for the BGP Communities.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 8:49 AM Bruce Forster wrote:
> From my perspective;
>
> 1, You do have
>From my perspective;
1, You do have a commercial relationship with your upstream not the CDN
2, its in the interest of the upstream to save on costs with the use of
cache's on net and other IX's
3, the 'best' path for your network and what the CDN views as best don't
always align.
I know in the
You lost me when your sender name is Thomas Bishop but email address says
Darryl Huges
On 2 Jul 2019, at 16:53, thomas bishop wrote:
Hi List,
This is a bit of a strange one.
We have recently signed up with a new IP Transit provider and noticed the usage
was a lot higher than our old prov
Which CDN or OTTs are you seeing this for? Almost all of the CDN/OTT
networks are happy to work with you to get traffic back over peering links
rather than transit.
If you'd rather not share on-list, drop me a msg off list and I'm happy to
help you find the right CDN/OTT contacts regardless which
Hi List,
This is a bit of a strange one.
We have recently signed up with a new IP Transit provider and noticed the
usage was a lot higher than our old provider.
After doing some digging and sflow captures we managed to find out the
provider themselves was sending us tonnes of traffic from their
