Internap routing - South America - Web Hosting Talk

05-10-2009, 01:19 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by WireSix You do know that Internap has NO CONTROL over inbound routes, that is your ISP preferencing other paths that are less optimal, most likely cost based routing. Full disclosure: I am an Internap employee. (Funny this would be an active topic at just about the same time I sorta accidentally jacked a completely different thread.) As you allude to here, inbound route control is, at best, equivalent to throwing darts at a target while blindfolded. There's no magic inbound route control, so yes, Internap has very limited capability there. We can still try to differentially weight the carriers a bit, of course, if only to spread the load around a bit so no single pipe gets flooded on inbound. The key is not to flat-top so packets get through sanely, and the hope is that the networks on the other end have decent paths available to get to us. That said, the traceroutes provided are useful data and I'll forward them along. Quote: Originally Posted by iansltx Not trying to flame anyone, but sounds like you should call up InterNAP and ask why they don't have Telefonica in their mix. I've already taken note to tell the appropriate folks. Internap is aware that our South American reach is pretty much at the mercy of a scant few transit carriers, and there are efforts already underway to alleviate that problem.