Re: Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Drake
Thanks for the detailed information, this is very informative. I realize now that this question was probably off topic for the mailing list and I apologize to everyone for that. After talking with someone about it, I realized that the problem was that my BGP provider (http://bgp.he.net/AS20473) wa

Re: Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Keenan Tims
These decisions are entirely made by Comcast's equipment - you have very little influence over their routing choices, especially because you do not peer directly with them. They do seem a bit nonsensical - Comcast's internal metrics should know that SEA is closer to PDX than LAX is, and sho

Re: Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Drake
> > > Normally you would use anycast to get you to a DNS server (which doesn't > have to be that near), then a geographic DNS server to get you to the right > CDN element. > > That's what I was doing previously, but I need to control the IPs for the CDN, and I only have the budget for one /24, so I

Re: Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Alex Bligh
> On 21 Sep 2016, at 22:35, Kyle Drake wrote: > > I've recently acquired an IPv4/24, and I've been working on building an > Anycast network for CDN use Normally you would use anycast to get you to a DNS server (which doesn't have to be that near), then a geographic DNS server to get you to th

Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Drake
Hello! I'm new to using Bird and BGP, but I'm learning. I've recently acquired an IPv4/24, and I've been working on building an Anycast network for CDN use. Right now I have a 15 datacenter network from a VPS provider (which uses Bird as it's recommended daemon: https://www.vultr.com/docs/configur