Re: Akamai minimum prefix length issue

2015-05-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Akamai does not follow BGP perfectly, for many reasons, including BGP preferring crappy paths much of the time. ISPs should email netsupport-...@akamai.com to get help with traffic engineering, performance, and other questions. (Or at least that used to be the case a year ago.) -- TTFN,

Re: Akamai minimum prefix length issue

2015-05-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Akamai does not do this. -- TTFN, patrick On May 13, 2015, at 15:42 , Jake Mertel j...@nobistech.net wrote: Chuck, Just throwing this out there as a possibility, I've seen similar issues with other ISPs wherein the root cause was their BGP speaking routers using a filter set published

Re: Akamai minimum prefix length issue

2015-05-13 Thread Jake Mertel
Chuck, Just throwing this out there as a possibility, I've seen similar issues with other ISPs wherein the root cause was their BGP speaking routers using a filter set published by (I'm almost certain) Cisco that, among other things, blocks announcements of any prefix that is smaller then the

Re: Akamai minimum prefix length issue

2015-05-13 Thread Martin Hannigan
Hi Patrick, Correct answer. No surprise. And yes, netsupport-...@akamai.com is still the way to go for these types of issues. Thanks for the help! Best, -M // AS 20940 On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: Akamai does not follow BGP perfectly, for

Akamai minimum prefix length issue

2015-05-13 Thread Chuck Church
Anyone from Akamai (or who might know), Having an issue with AS 20940 either not seeing or ignoring a /23 we're announcing, and following a /22 to another path. Other ISPs our upstream peers with see the /23. I didn't see a looking glass for Akamai to verify. Anyone from Akamai able to