On Aug 15, 2013, at 20:02 , Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: >> From: "Warren Bailey" <wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> > >> I neglected to say one additional thing which I think may be worth reading >> before replying. I have always held the opinion that internet traffic >> isn't internet traffic until it hits the Internet, which I defined as >> two or more autonomous systems functioning on their own but possessing the >> ability to relay information between the two. I'm pretty sure that if >> you have a single network, you couldn't label it "inter" unless "inter" >> was between yourself - and then you have a network.. Not an internetwork. > > I suspect that, to a first approximation, "traffic which passes through the > edge of at least one AS" is probably what most people think of as 'Internet' > traffic.
As per my original post to this thread, that would remove all traffic from Akamai on-net nodes, Google's GGC nodes, Netflix's on-net Open Connect nodes, and many others. If you are a broadband network in many countries, that is well over half the traffic going down your customer's pipes. I think most people would alter their definition to count that traffic. > As for your DNS question: the interior query isn't, per-se, but the > repeated one from your resolver/proxy *is*. I don't think the type of packet (DNS, HTTP, SMTP, etc. or even TCP, IP, ICMP) should matter. -- TTFN, patrick
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