On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 03:57, J S Russell wrote:
Highly irked, in fact.
I just got to send the following notification to TelstraClear: (Note: MSWord format - my apologies)
TC have decided that since ICONZ no longer buy international bandwidth from them, and we don't meet "current policy", they're going to drop all domestic peering with us.
Never mind - you can peer with us! This will be especially useful over the next week as traffic volumes to Citylink's Webcams and Windows Multi media servers increase due to the Lord of the Rings premiere. I'm going to take this opportunity to encourage ALL with direct connections to the APE and WIX to establish peering sessions with the relevant route servers and make sure they are accepting at least the route for 202.7.4.0/24. Don't ask for direct peering with the routers announcing this to the route servers - go via the route servers. Why? We've set up an ANYCAST infrastructure for this block with servers in Auckland, Wellington and the US. If you aren't peering at APE/WIX you will be accessing our webcams from a host in North America. If you want to see the Windows MMS stuff you'll have to be peering - it simply won't be available outside New Zealand. We're providing four servers - two each in Auckland and Wellington - all with GigE connections so that you can get to see the webcam and mms content. We'll be changing things tomorrow so that this will be the only access to this content. We've done all this so that we can avoid the large traffic bill we incurred last year. The downside for you is that if you or your ISP aren't peering then you will incur both international traffic charges and sub optimal performance. If you're unhappy about that and you aren't in a position to peer, then contact your ISP and lean on them to sort this out. So you're an ISP and you want to get this set up? Complete the relevant form at http://www.citylink.co.nz/services/exchange/. Please note that we normally take one working day to turn this around but we're very busy this week and so requests received after Thursday are pretty unlikely to be processed until after the premiere on Monday evening. Do something about this soon - procrastination is definitely the thief of time in this case. Enjoy, andy