AUS Traffic being routed to USA
We have two applications hosted locally but published via CF Tunnels - traffic is being redirected from our closest datacentre (Melbourne, Australia) to anywhere in the USA region. I've reached out to our ISP and they have said the following;
Looks like Cloudflare somehow did not advertise those specific prefixes via AU domestic peering to Telstra TID AS1221 i.e. 104.21.16.0/20, 104.21.32.0/20 or 172.67.144.0/20 As TID AS1221 looking glass https://lg.tools.telstra.net/ only shows routes via Telstra Global AS4637 off Cloudflare AS13335 If your cust has hosted environment with Cloudflare, we suggest for them to engage Cloudflare directly to investigate their AU domestic route advertisement to Telstra AS1221 with those prefixes, as we have no control of Cloudflares route advertisement
What's the best way to reach the routing team?
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The Cloudflare Blog
Bandwidth Costs Around the World
CloudFlare protects over 4 million Internet properties using our global network which spans 86 cities across 45 countries. Running this network give us a unique vantage point to track the evolving cost of bandwidth around the world.
For instance, if Telstra were to peer with CloudFlare then they would only have to move traffic over about 30 meters of fiber optic cable between our adjoining cages in the same data center. Now Telstra will need to backhaul traffic to Free customers to Los Angeles or Singapore over expensive undersea cables. Their behavior is irrational in any competitive market and so it is not a surprise that each of these providers is a relative monopolist in their home market.
Thanks for the infomation, guess I'll be getting no where with Telstra as they said to reach out to CF.. Thanks for the blog post mate!