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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