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#298529 24-Jun-2022 22:25

I'm seeing some of my Cloudflare (2degrees) traffic heading to Christchurch as from tonight. Not seeing anything announced by Cloudflare but good to see we're close to 2 locations now!

I've noticed that most sites behind Cloudflare are routing to Sydney currently however https://speed.cloudflare.com/ seems to be somewhat reliable to test where you connect to.

Also, adding /cdn-cgi/trace to the end of a URL which has Cloudflare (eg: https://geekzone.co.nz/cdn-cgi/trace) will show a your datacentre location also.

I'll be interested to know more details on this and if perhaps some ISP's will need to peer here to get Christchurch connectivity.

Looks like they may be meeting over CHC-IX: https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/2797

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#2934042 24-Jun-2022 22:50

This brings a smile to me (and probably NickMack’s face).

Great news.

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#2934043 24-Jun-2022 23:06

Well I'm guessing it is at Spark owned data centre then, considering their recent change in position wrt peering with them?

Trustpower seem to be another ISP who are connected in Christchurch (tested 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver).

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#2934109 25-Jun-2022 08:19

Awesome, this is good news ! Thanks for sharing.

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#2934171 25-Jun-2022 10:37

I'm seeing CloudFlare speed tests go to Christchurch as well :) 300 / 100 plan.

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#2934174 25-Jun-2022 11:07

Geekzone seems to be going to SYD lately (https://geekzone.co.nz/cdn-cgi/trace). I've noticed the ones going to CHC (https://slashdot.org/cdn-cgi/trace and https://mitre10.co.nz/cdn-cgi/trace) seem to not have AAAA records (IPv6), so I wonder if those are Enterprise accounts, with Business and Pro accounts being offloaded to SYD (larger location perhaps?)

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#2934230 25-Jun-2022 11:56

Seems to be network dependent. Cloudflare speedtests on Orcon (Vocus) going to Auckland.

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#2934231 25-Jun-2022 11:56

I have made a small change and it seems Geekzone is now going through CHC (on 2degrees) as well.


 
fl=481f1
h=geekzone.co.nz
ip=...
ts=1656114945.127
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.53 Safari/537.36 Edg/103.0.1264.37
colo=CHC
http=http/3
loc=NZ
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off

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#2934246 25-Jun-2022 11:58

freitasm:

I have made a small change and it seems Geekzone is now going through CHC (on 2degrees) as well.



fl=481f1
h=geekzone.co.nz
ip=...
ts=1656114945.127
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.53 Safari/537.36 Edg/103.0.1264.37
colo=CHC
http=http/3
loc=NZ
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off

What was the change? My free Cloudflare accounts are out of Sydney.

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#2934247 25-Jun-2022 11:59

freitasm:

I have made a small change and it seems Geekzone is now going through CHC (on 2degrees) as well.



fl=481f1
h=geekzone.co.nz
ip=...
ts=1656114945.127
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.53 Safari/537.36 Edg/103.0.1264.37
colo=CHC
http=http/3
loc=NZ
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off

Checked Spark and Orcon (Vocus) and reporting AKL so just for 2degrees?

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#2934249 25-Jun-2022 12:03

@timmmay turned Argo back on.

@Jiriteach I think it will try the closest node via peerings so 2degrees would be CHC, Spark and Vocus via AKL.

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#2934261 25-Jun-2022 13:28

Didn’t realise Spark were peering with cloudflare now, I see Geekzone is going via Auckland is a welcome change

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#2934264 25-Jun-2022 13:32

Jiriteach:
Checked Spark and Orcon (Vocus) and reporting AKL so just for 2degrees?

I'm on 2D UFB in Auckand and am getting Geekzone via the Auckland node, So probably somewhat geo dependent?

fl=46f28
h=geekzone.co.nz
ip=203.86.xxx.xxx
ts=1656120700.412
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.124 Safari/537.36 Edg/102.0.1245.44
colo=AKL
http=http/3
loc=NZ
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off

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#2934274 25-Jun-2022 13:54

@Andib Yes, is geo. Makes no sense for your traffic to go down to Christchurch. Makes more sense for my traffic to go down south (well, 50/50).

I've heard that Cloudflare are doing a pretty big NZ expansion currently essentially rolling out their own NZ network on top of additional POP's in the major peering exchanges so things are only going to get better from here :)

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#2934771 27-Jun-2022 09:06

This is cool!, unrelated it now appears Geekzone is going via the Auckland node again

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#2935294 28-Jun-2022 11:58

Nice one, good to see.

My Cloudflare Tunnels are now registering to CHC and MEL, but a /cdn-cgi/trace when accessing the tunnels shows connection via SYD.

Enabling Argo on the domain ($5 USD/month) seems to result in browser requests landing in CHC instead (2degrees IPv6)

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