[AusNOG] Telstra YouTube Servers

[Grant Phillips]

You can peer with Google via Equinix & Pipe. :)

Cheers,
Grant

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, <craig at askings.com.au> wrote:

> Have you considered approaching Google to peer directly? I know they have
> a PoP at Globalswitch.
>
>
> Craig.
>
> > Hi There,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Phil Britt
> >
> > Aussie Broadband
> >
> >
> >
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