Re: BGP prefix filter list

[Dan White <dwhite () olp net>]

On 05/15/19 13:58 +0000, Phil Lavin wrote:
> > We're an eyeball network. We accept default routes from our transit
> > providers so in theory there should be no impact on reachability.
> >
> > I'm pretty concerned about things that I don't know due to inefficient
> > routing, e.g. customers hitting a public anycast DNS server in the wrong
> > location resulting in Geolocation issues.
>
> Ah! Understood. The default route(s) was the bit I missed. Makes a lot of
> sense if you can't justify buying new routers.
>
> Have you seen issues with Anycast routing thus far? One would assume that
> routing would still be fairly efficient unless you're picking up transit
> from non-local providers over extended L2 links.

We've had no issues so far but this was a recent change. There was no
noticeable change to outbound traffic levels. 

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