Hi all. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:58:31AM +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene said:
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 19:35 +1200, Craig Spiers wrote:
We are now peering on APE. Those wishing to peer with us directly, please contact me off list.
I would strongly suggest it.. as it appears that most people seem to have an advertise all, accept none policy in regards to the route servers.
This doesn't fit with our experience on the IXes. We have generally found most people are running basically an advertise all, accept all (except obvious badness) policy on the IXes.
Taking off my IX hat and plopping on my CDN hat, I'd observe that during the Olympics we peaked at around 1.5Gb/s delivery into APE, and about 1Gb/s into WIX. That's on routers with no bilaterals over APE - clearly somebody is listening to the route servers.
I'd be interested to see any evidence of a widespread practice of overly strict inbound filtering of routes from APE/WIX/etc, as it would encourage us to do more bilateral peering.
The StreamingNet routers attached to the exchanges only peer with the route servers (not for any particular reason, more that until this discussion started, it hadn't occurred to me to seek bilats - I hadn't perceived they were necessary). It maybe that folks are allowing the StreamingNet prefixes and dropping everything else, but that sounds a little far fetched. There are some peers who won't take longer than a /24, and others who have a restricted announce policy (particularly in Wellington), but I haven't heard of anybody announcing but not learning. If you are advertising prefixes into the route servers that are not getting out to other peers, then it would be worthwhile checking the route server looking glasses and ensuring that it's not the filters on the route servers dropping your announcements. Cheers Simon