https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/network-configuration/

Doesn’t cover everything but does give a good indication as to how the traffic 
redirection for Netflix’s content servers works.

Ben.

> On 6 May 2016, at 09:38, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, Speaking of Virgin media, observed something odd the other day, 
> wonder if anyone can spread any light on it, a BGP network with its own AS 
> and PI space has a connection to Virgin Media which they pay for, and use as 
> a backup. They have a bigger connection to a Tier-2 also paid for transit, 
> used for most of their traffic. They observed that a large amount of youtube 
> and netflix traffic was going to VM, which was not desirable I checked the 
> routing and actually Netflix and Google was preferred via the bigger 
> connection not VM.
> 
> The reason the traffic was coming in from VM is, that when people are using 
> his PI IP's and connect to youtube or netflix, it seems 70% of the time, the 
> media IP (when the content starts) is from VM PA space, not Netflix or google 
> IP's. I might expect this if I requested the content from VM PA space, but 
> not on PI, and how did netflix and google learn that his PI space has a 
> direct route to VM, obviously you could pick it up from the BGP tables, but 
> are they really looking?
> 
> Massive coincidence or is their some intelligence going on here?
> 
> W
> 


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