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Google peering in LAX
- Subject: Google peering in LAX
- From: owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 12:44:05 -0800
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In part, it might be because people youâ??re not paying may be less tolerant of anti-social behavior than people you are paying.
It does seem rather odd that Google would prefer to receive their traffic over transit, but Iâ??m not going to try and second guess that decision.
Owen
> On Mar 2, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
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> Anyone know why Google announces only aggregates via peering and disaggregate prefixes over transit?
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> For example, I had a customer complaining about a path that was taking the long way instead of via peering and when I looked I saw:
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> Only 172.217.0.0/16 over Any2 LAX
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> That plus 172.217.14.0/24 over transit
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> Any inquiries to Google just get a generic "we're not setting up any new peering but we're on route servers" response for almost a year now. Or is it because they don't send the /24's to route servers and I'm stuck until they finish their forever improvement project to turn up a direct neighbor?