[AusNOG] AAPT Routing Issue

[Chad Kelly]

Yes the post I quoted referenced and linked to the blog post.

Regards Chad.



On 12/29/2017 4:03 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
> There was a blog post a while ago explaining turning off expensive 
> transit for their free product. I believe only affected Au and maybe 
> south America.
>
> On 29 Dec. 2017 3:05 pm, "Nick Stallman" <nick at agentpoint.com 
> <mailto:nick at agentpoint.com>> wrote:
>
>     Do remember that Cloudflare *does* buy transit if you pay them.
>
>     The peering only policy only affects free and Pro plans, not
>     Business or Enterprise.
>
>     I believe they use different IPs for the plans specifically so
>     they can do this.
>
>
>     On 29/12/17 15:04, Chad Kelly wrote:
>>
>>     On 12/29/2017 12:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net
>>     <mailto:ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net> wrote:
>>>     Related, this means that if you have sites behind Cloudflare
>>>     (who do peer with IX) as a CDN / DDoS protection for example all
>>>     your traffic routes off-shore with TPG & Friends -
>>     The simple solution to this is to switch to a CDN provider who
>>     don't care about having to buy transit.
>>     The downside is unlike Cloudflare you will need to pay for
>>     bandwidth, however if you are on the Business plan with CF then
>>     switching away  will likely work out significantly cheaper for Au
>>     bandwidth, as the pricing is $200 USD a month with CloudFlare but
>>     you can get a bunch of others significantly cheaper.
>>     Regards Chad.
>>
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