[AusNOG] Pipe Brisbane Peering Exchange traffic dropoff

[Nathan Brookfield]

We are seeing download3.vmware.com via Equinix Peering although the IP
address appears to be different:

 

C:\Users\nathan>tracert download3.vmware.com

 

Tracing route to e751.d.akamaiedge.net [122.252.43.51]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.1.1.254

  2     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  core-bdr-1-1-gi-0.sau.net.au [202.130.33.41]

  3     4 ms     4 ms     5 ms  core-bdr-1-1-fa-0.sau.net.au [202.130.35.3]

  4     6 ms     9 ms     5 ms  202.167.228.102

  5     4 ms     5 ms     4 ms  122.252.43.51

 

Trace complete.

 

C:\Users\nathan>

 

I can see routes over PiPE but our BGP is preferring Equinix Peering because
we have so much of it J

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2009 1:25 PM
To: Tim Warnock
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pipe Brisbane Peering Exchange traffic dropoff

 

 

On 12/11/2009, at 12:37 PM, Tim Warnock wrote:


A trace to download3.vmware.com goes via the internodes network to a cluster
in syd from bne. No idea whether they present the whole cluster or just
parts of it but. MMC?

 

Lucky you - for me it ends up across peering in Tokyo.   Akamai do strange
things - I suspect if you understood what was happening your head would
explode.

 

% traceroute download3.vmware.com

traceroute to e751.d.akamaiedge.net (125.56.171.51), 64 hops max, 52 byte
packets

 1  vl700.cor3.adl2.internode.on.net (150.101.0.138)  3.602 ms  1.518 ms
1.273 ms

 2  gi5-3.bdr1.adl6.internode.on.net (150.101.225.109)  138.590 ms  138.562
ms  138.378 ms

 3  pos3-1.bdr1.syd7.internode.on.net (203.16.212.181)  138.599 ms  138.303
ms  138.208 ms

 4  pos1-3-0.bdr2.nrt1.internode.on.net (203.16.211.38)  138.878 ms  138.539
ms  138.356 ms

 5  20940.tyo.equinix.com (203.190.230.22)  139.578 ms  139.762 ms  140.318
ms

^C

 

MMC

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Matthew Moyle-Croft

Peering Manager and Team Lead - Commercial and DSLAMs

Internode /Agile

 

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