[AusNOG] IP Transit provider Caching content providers with their own ASN and IP's

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Well, since his actual account is moderated.... :)

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 17:08, Nathan Brookfield <
Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:

> You lost me when your sender name is Thomas Bishop but email address says
> Darryl Huges....
>
> On 2 Jul 2019, at 16:53, thomas bishop <darryl.huges87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> This is a bit of a strange one.
>
> We have recently signed up with a new IP Transit provider and noticed the
> usage was a lot higher than our old provider.
>
> After doing some digging and sflow captures we managed to find out the
> provider themselves was sending us tonnes of traffic from their ASN and
> their IP (They are not a content provider).
>
> We raised this with the provider and they said its because they cache
> akami and a few other content providers so that traffic will come through
> our Transit link instead of our peering.
>
> Since the traffic is coming straight from their AS there is little we can
> do to stop it coming in apart from getting our own caching server but i
> don't feel like this should be required.
>
> Curious of your thoughts either on list or privately. Personally i don't
> see why they would cache with their own AS number. We are essentially
> paying a premium for traffic we can get for nothing with peering.
>
> Thanks
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