domjh
March 29, 2019, 10:47pm
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Currently just a collection of good posts and links about peering, hopefully this will get written up properly at some point (either by me or someone else)!
Edit: It has now! You can find it here .
“As the crow flies” is not always the same as “As the packet traverses the Internet.”
Due to peering agreements (or lack of), the shortest geographical path isn’t always possible.
It’s not only Cloudflare.
A while ago i was routed to Vienna and Milan for weeks instead of Frankfurt. Everything was fine when i ran MTR from my servers next to the Cloudflare edges. (Same DC)
So being in a free plan is not the reason.
The internet, BGP to be more exact, is designed to use the shortest paths from source to destination.
For example:
Your ISP, let’s say AS1, has a direct peering with Cloudflare (AS13335) your country will have a ‘direct’ connection.
If your ISP doesn’t h…
@jeian.nueva ,
Cloudflare is an anycast network, so their routing decisions are controlled by peering relationships with local ISPs and telcos. You can encourage your ISP to peer directly with Cloudflare here: Cloudflare Peering Policy and the linked peering DB can give you some idea of where your provider(s) are peering today.
Salamat,
-OG
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169986-Which-Cloudflare-data-center-do-I-reach-
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Here’s an excellent tool to check on who’s peering with whom, verify IP addresses, DNS etc:
https://bgp.he.net/
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PeeringDB Cloudflare
Good site for hijacks, leaks, and outageshttps://bgpstream.com/ https://twitter.com/bgpstream
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