3rd party transit for anycast services?

Wed Nov 27 18:23:10 UTC 2013

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:01:30AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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> On Nov 27, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Carlos Kamtha <kamtha at ak-labs.net> wrote:
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> > Hi, 
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> > We have an anycast provider (internap) that cannot give us direct service in the AU region. 
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> > I'm wondering if there are providers, not specifically internap,  that will allow another local ISP to 
> > 'transit' anycast IP services thier behalf? 
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> Why not just originate the services from a prefix (or multiple prefixes) of your own?  Then you can pick and choose who you use where.  You still have to be careful that people don't "helpfully" backhaul stuff to places you don't want, but at least the policy lever is in your hands.

Not an option atm. we do not have control over layer 3 and we do not currently own a CIDR block and, our BGP sessions are done with reserved 655xx ASN to our provider. 

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> Short answer is yes, we do this for people all the time, and I'm sure many of the other large anycast providers do as well.
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> Renesys could probably tell you which ones, specifically.

Noted. thanks! 

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