Traffic from german telekom is routed to USA

What is the name of the domain?

private

What is the error number?

no error. just very high latency

What is the error message?

very high latency

What is the issue you’re encountering

I’m a customer of the provider “1&1” (which is using the network of “German Telekom”). The domain in question is hosted on Cloudflare. However, traffic to the public IP assigned to this domain (used for proxied connections and also Cloudflare Access) is routed to the USA and has a very high latency. All the Cloudflare services which require traffic to pass through their servers (basically all of them) are unusable in this way.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

talked to the provider and they wont help.

I would like to ask, if the public IP assigned to a given Cloudflare hosted domain can be changed in any way.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

I’ve used RIPE Atlas to create Traceroutes from different source IPs (probes) to the IP in question: RIPE Atlas - RIPE Network Coordination Centre
As you can see, the requests are routed to their nearest Cloudflare POP (as you would expect with Anycast) from all the probes but the ones using ASN 3220 (German Telekom) as their provider.

This is due to DTAG’s peering policy that requires payment for traffic sent in, which is not affordable for Cloudflare free plans. As a result free plan site requests from DTAG are routed by them to New York - there’s many threads on this.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Peering-Consumer-advocates-mobilize-against-Telekom-s-network-brake-10245513.html

You may find a paid plan works better although there’s no guarantee it will, or will stay that way. A test using some Cloudflare plans is at the bottom of this page…

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