[AusNOG] Telstra YouTube Servers

[McDonald Richards]

Have you considered that via Pipe and Equinix you are 2 AS hops away from
Google/YouTube? Telstra may have their own infrastructure to which you are
only a single AS hop away (or two depending on exactly how it's setup - but
at the very least it's equal to what is being sent over the IX point). It's
also pretty common for a direct private peer to be LPREF'd higher than a
multi-lateral peer, even when over a common IX fabric.

Many of us here run TWI connections for a variety of reasons and do not have
this problem. Many of us also directly peer with Google. What's being
suggested is that you eBGP peer Google directly over an IX point rather than
going via a route-server, shortening the AS path.

You could also just try emailing Google directly for assistance as well -
I'm sure they'd be willing to help :)

http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=15169


Macca


From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Phillip Britt
Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 2:32 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Telstra YouTube Servers

Ok, l think everyone has missed the point of the question, l already peer
with pipe in 4 states and equinix. 

The question is, has anyone with TWI had issues with their You Tube traffic
being preferenced to Telstra based You Tube servers rather than via
multi-lateral peering links even when BGP will select the path via peering,
ie they are making a decision in the software to redirect the session to
Telstra based servers, ie not a routing decision.