Roller Network is one of the first participants of the Tahoe Internet Exchange, or TahoeIX. We announce our routes and our customer’s routes to the exchange, and accept all routes from the exchange. This morning TahoeIX welcomed Packet Clearing House to the peering fabric. While we’re still working turning up some direct peering sessions with PCH, their peering with the TahoeIX IPv4 route server is already up. We’ll receive routes directly and through the common route server.
Why peering? Here’s a perfect example of an improvement.
Traffic to a peered DNS root now looks like this:
$ mtr e.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net 0.0% 2 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.1 2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net 0.0% 2 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.1 3.|-- e.root-servers.net 0.0% 2 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.1
While traffic to a DNS root without peering takes the long, scenic route:
$ mtr b.root-servers.net -4 -c 2 -r HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net 0.0% 2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.1 2.|-- core1-gi3-3.rollernet.net 0.0% 2 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0 3.|-- border0-gi0-1.rollernet.n 0.0% 2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 0.0 4.|-- 12.116.94.237 0.0% 2 15.1 31.5 15.1 47.9 23.2 5.|-- 12.122.160.30 0.0% 2 12.4 12.2 12.0 12.4 0.3 6.|-- cr2.sffca.ip.att.net 0.0% 2 11.7 12.6 11.7 13.4 1.1 7.|-- 12.122.149.137 0.0% 2 13.7 13.7 13.6 13.7 0.1 8.|-- 192.205.37.58 0.0% 2 12.0 12.1 12.0 12.3 0.3 9.|-- ae-9.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.g 0.0% 2 12.2 11.9 11.6 12.2 0.4 10.|-- ae-7.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.g 0.0% 2 23.2 23.4 23.2 23.6 0.3 11.|-- ae-2.r05.lsanca03.us.bb.g 0.0% 2 24.4 23.7 23.0 24.4 1.0 12.|-- ntt-los-nettos-usc.ln.net 0.0% 2 23.9 23.6 23.3 23.9 0.4 13.|-- isi-vlan2009.ln.net 0.0% 2 24.0 23.9 23.8 24.0 0.1 14.|-- b.root-servers.net 0.0% 2 24.4 25.7 24.4 27.0 1.9
The improvement should be quite obvious.
UPDATE: More prefixes from Afilias were added this morning.
$ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -6 HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- 2607:fe70:0:beef::1 0.0% 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net 0.0% 1 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.0 3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org 0.0% 1 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.0 $ mtr -c 1 -r b2.org.afilias-nst.org -4 HOST: whiskers Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- office-gw.rollernet.net 0.0% 1 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.0 2.|-- as42.tahoeix.net 0.0% 1 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0 3.|-- b2.org.afilias-nst.org 0.0% 1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0