Community list REACH
Hey out there. I am in need of a list of community strings that REACH.COM accepts. Does anyone have a list of these? For the last several months I have been trying to get traffic coming from reach to traverse a different path to my AS. This is proving to be a project. Right now they are sending me traffic over Cogent and Cogent doesn't have any decent communities for this type of thing. My Australian customers are getting 400ms traceroutes coming through Telstra > Reach > Cogent to us. This is starting to get to be a VERY annoying problem. James Ashton Vortech, Inc 321-231-8057 james@vortechhosting.com AS32065
On Dec 15, 2004, at 4:33 AM, James Ashton wrote:
Hey out there. I am in need of a list of community strings that REACH.COM accepts. Does anyone have a list of these? For the last several months I have been trying to get traffic coming from reach to traverse a different path to my AS. This is proving to be a project. Right now they are sending me traffic over Cogent and Cogent doesn't have any decent communities for this type of thing. My Australian customers are getting 400ms traceroutes coming through Telstra > Reach > Cogent to us.
Most providers that act on communities, only accept them from their directly connected customers (and in some cases peers).
This is starting to get to be a VERY annoying problem.
I would complain hard to Cogent to ask them to selectively prepend towards their peers either based on communities or on a request from you. And I'd tell your Australian customers to complain to Telstra.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:33:08AM -0500, James Ashton wrote:
I am in need of a list of community strings that REACH.COM accepts. Does anyone have a list of these?
Reach does, I'm sure. Contacting them would be the smart thing.
For the last several months I have been trying to get traffic [snip]
Then again, it sounds like you aren't a REACH customer. Generally, networks only offer traffic preference communities to their customers. One should not have any expectation of remote-control -by communities or any other means- beyond the borders of the networks with whom you have direct relations. It sounds like you should be discussing with your provider what they can do for you, perhaps demanding reach-specific communities or making sure there's more particular performance criteria in your contracts. Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE
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