[AusNOG] Telstra YouTube Servers

[andrew khoo]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Matt Carter wrote:

> Are we suggesting that you Youtube have local preffed traffic for 
> certain prefixes to Telstra, by way of Youtube policy, or by way of 
> Telstra sending a community to Youtube to influence their local pref. 
> Sending a community to increase local pref above default seems highly 
> unlikely if supported it usually goes the other way, are we super super 
> sure we aren't seeing something that is consistent with "normal BGP path 
> selection algorithm"? route-views.oregon-ix.net has hooks into AS1221, 
> in lieu of an actual Telstra looking glass, everything looks ok?? (and 
> likewise over in pipe IX land?)

not all routing decisions favored by Google for traffic selection come 
from BGP tables and related prefs.

this is the same situation with some of the other um high-traffic 
edge-caching type providers.



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