Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Drake
Hello! I'm new to using Bird and BGP, but I'm learning. I've recently acquired an IPv4/24, and I've been working on building an Anycast network for CDN use. Right now I have a 15 datacenter network from a VPS provider (which uses Bird as it's recommended daemon: https://www.vultr.com/docs/configur

Re: Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Drake
> > > Normally you would use anycast to get you to a DNS server (which doesn't > have to be that near), then a geographic DNS server to get you to the right > CDN element. > > That's what I was doing previously, but I need to control the IPs for the CDN, and I only have the budget for one /24, so I

Re: Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Drake
s not announcing to > them at all - they will choose a *different* route that doesn't connect > directly to Choopa, but it may not be better. > > More or less you're at their mercy. > > K > > > Quoting Kyle Drake : > > >>> >>> Normally yo