[AusNOG] Telstra YouTube Servers

[craig at askings.com.au]

Have you considered approaching Google to peer directly? I know they have
a PoP at Globalswitch.


Craig.

> Hi There,
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> Just a short question to those who may use Telstra Wholesale Internet
> and Pipe Peering.  We have recently added Telstra as another transit
> (in addition to Verizon) and have noticed a large drop in peering
> traffic coming in through Sydney, we have done some tracking and it
> would now appear that YouTube is now giving preference  servers based at
> Telstra, rather than those via Pipe Sydney.  This should not be confused
> with the normal BGP path selection process.
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> We suspect that Telstra has advised our ranges to YouTube in a similar
> manner to how Akamai works, and this is why they are redirecting
> locally.
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> Obviously we would prefer this traffic via Peering rather than transit.
> Has anyone seen this before or had experience with dealing with Telstra
> to have preference for those locally based servers removed?
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> Cheers,
>
> Phil Britt
>
> Aussie Broadband
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