Re: BGP person from Bell Canada/AS577

[Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>]

On 19 Jun 2019, at 10:27, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:

> I'm curious as to why someone would want to do this? My interest is education, not combative.

In previous lives I have had great success simply talking to people at Akamai about where my customers' traffic was 
landing, and where would make more sense for it to land. They were always very responsive; the people I used to talk to 
are no longer there, but I imagine there are replacements, even if you have to hunt a little further than the published 
noc address. I always took care to describe my problem in terms of clients and content rather than routing policy, 
which seemed like a better bet than making assumptions about how their content-steering machinery worked.

Asking Akamai seems more likely to succeed than asking a third-party network to modify their BGP export policy for a 
non-customer, especially when the third-party network is large and, I am guessing, highly-automated and policy-rigid. 
But it would be interesting to me too to find out if I'm wrong.

Jason, if you are multi-homed you could always try AS_PATH prepending 18717 to the advertisments you send towards 577 
(he said, over his shoulder, running away).


Joe

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