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Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:22:31 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Randy Bush wrote:
this is called path poisoning. an italian friend used it in his phd thesis. a few friends and i used it to detect use of default across the internet.
I've done this in the past as a work-around for insufficient BGP community support. Just prepending the AS I wanted to ignore the paths.
But, if the problem is an anycast CDN choosing a sub-optimal path to reach you, you might try reaching out to them. They're probably just as, if not more interested, in getting their traffic to you as efficiently as possible.
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- Prepending with another ASN you don't own Andrew Imeson (Dec 16)
- Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own Rubens Kuhl (Dec 16)
- Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own Randy Bush (Dec 16)
- Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own Jon Lewis (Dec 16)
- Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own Randy Bush (Dec 16)
- Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own Jon Lewis (Dec 16)
- Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own Job Snijders (Dec 16)
- Re: Prepending with another ASN you don't own Roland Dobbins (Dec 16)