[AusNOG] Dealing with global route views

[Andrew Yager]

Hi All,

Coming to the end of a couple of long weeks, and brain is a bit fried.

For the last few days we've had issues where one or other of our two
primary internal upstreams has had DOS attacks affecting their connectivity
on foreign soil (i.e. connectivity via Level 3 is borked, or connectivity
via he.net is borked), which has adversely affected our ability to reach
certain parts of the world, and conversely their ability to reach us.

In both cases we don't really want to drop either transit provider
completely as the domestic performance we get from them both is good.

On another day my brain might see this really clearly, but just can't get
my head into it for now.

Can we:

a) adjust our internal preferences accurately enough to influence our
outbound traffic to prefer one or the other in particular, operator driven
scenarios
b) influence our rest of the world traffic to avoid he.net or level 3

... and how?

I believe one of our upstreams (Vocus) will honour some "do not advertise
here" communities (but I don't know where the list is), but I suspect the
other (PIPE) will not?

Thanks,
Andrew

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