Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

It is ok.
It is a bit quicker (not by much thought) to go direct to the hosting provider and not via CloudFlare as the server is in the UK.

I am testing them, to a view to start using them

Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

If the twitter team can change routing I suggest trying them as ignition said.

Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

I have contacted an admin on the VM forum, I will see how that goes first.
Then if that, doesn't go to plan, I will contact the twitter team.

Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

evidence backing up what ignition has said I have a route going to one of my servers going via the amsterdam peering link. So the route is available if picked by BGP.

Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

Hi,

Now I am confused :confused:, my brother just sent me a trace route, he lives about 3 minutes by car, about 10/15 minutes walk, and we both live in the LN6 area. He is on 10mb I am on 50mb.

So I thought we would of gone the same way, but we don't he goes to NL I go to US.

This is his trace route

C:\Users\James>tracert dev.social-mates.co.uk

Tracing route to dev.social-mates.co.uk [199.27.134.74]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms cf-199-27-134-74.cloudflare.com [199.27.134.74]
2 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 10.234.100.1
3 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms nott-cam-2b-v636.network.virginmedia.net [82.13.49.157]
4 11 ms 10 ms 17 ms nott-core-1b-ae3-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.175.141]
5 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms nrth-bb-1b-as1-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.174.173]
6 15 ms 15 ms 61 ms popl-bb-1a-as3-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.172.14]
7 15 ms 18 ms 15 ms popl-tmr-1-ae4-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.159.2]
8 22 ms 34 ms 46 ms amst-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.175.6]
9 25 ms 23 ms 29 ms ams-ix.ae1.cr1.ams2.nl.nlayer.net [195.69.145.219]
10 28 ms 54 ms 25 ms ae3-60g.cr1.ams2.nl.nlayer.net [69.22.139.238]
11 35 ms 28 ms 24 ms as23352.xe-0-3-0-104.cr1.ams2.nl.nlayer.net [69.22.139.119]
12 26 ms 60 ms 44 ms ge0-3.aggrB3.ams3.nl.scnet.net [205.234.220.229]
13 24 ms 26 ms 25 ms cf-199-27-131-10.cloudflare.com [199.27.131.10]
14 26 ms 26 ms 41 ms cf-199-27-134-74.cloudflare.com [199.27.134.74]


Trace complete.

C:\Users\James>

Could this be down to him using a different DOCSIS to me, which may use different equipment?

Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

yep hes on DOCSIS1, your on DOCSIS3 which are separate networks

Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

wheres your comparison?

its entirely possible to have different routing eg. leics has 2 core routers but the one I am not on has totally different internal VM routing it doesnt go via leeds. (in my opinion superior).

Re: VM Routing and CloudFlare.com
 

I was just seing what route he took and as, we are so close together, I thought we would take the same route. But I forgot he was on a different DOCSIS.