[76553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Community list REACH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Wed Dec 15 14:52:41 2004
In-Reply-To: <9F24CFC4C14AA141AD4503E0DBAF143A06952C@pdc.vortechexchange.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:52:07 -0500
To: "James Ashton" <james@vortechhosting.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Dec 15, 2004, at 4:33 AM, James Ashton wrote:
>
> Hey out there.
> I am in need of a list of community strings that REACH.COM accepts.
> Does anyone have a list of these?
> For the last several months I have been trying to get traffic coming
> from reach to traverse a different path to my AS. This is proving to be
> a project. Right now they are sending me traffic over Cogent and Cogent
> doesn't have any decent communities for this type of thing. My
> Australian customers are getting 400ms traceroutes coming through
> Telstra > Reach > Cogent to us.
Most providers that act on communities, only accept them from their
directly connected customers (and in some cases peers).
> This is starting to get to be a VERY annoying problem.
I would complain hard to Cogent to ask them to selectively prepend
towards their peers
either based on communities or on a request from you.
And I'd tell your Australian customers to complain to Telstra.
