Well, since his actual account is moderated.... :) On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 17:08, Nathan Brookfield < [email protected]> wrote:
> You lost me when your sender name is Thomas Bishop but email address says > Darryl Huges.... > > On 2 Jul 2019, at 16:53, thomas bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi List, > > This is a bit of a strange one. > > We have recently signed up with a new IP Transit provider and noticed the > usage was a lot higher than our old provider. > > After doing some digging and sflow captures we managed to find out the > provider themselves was sending us tonnes of traffic from their ASN and > their IP (They are not a content provider). > > We raised this with the provider and they said its because they cache > akami and a few other content providers so that traffic will come through > our Transit link instead of our peering. > > Since the traffic is coming straight from their AS there is little we can > do to stop it coming in apart from getting our own caching server but i > don't feel like this should be required. > > Curious of your thoughts either on list or privately. Personally i don't > see why they would cache with their own AS number. We are essentially > paying a premium for traffic we can get for nothing with peering. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > -- Damien Gardner Jnr VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust [email protected] - http://www.rendrag.net/ -- We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder
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