About AS41495
Our network is multihomed — we have multiple separate connections to upstream providers and peers. We are fully dual-stacked, supporting IPv6 as standard as well as legacy IPv4. We announce AS-FAELIX which contains AS41495 and all our customers’ networks.
Contacts
We maintain an accurate record for AS41495 at PeeringDB listing our NOC and peering contacts.
Peering
We are present on the following exchanges:
- LINX Manchester
- EquinixIX Manchester
- LINX LON1
- LINX LON2
- LONAP
- IXLeeds (planned)
We are able to peer privately in:
- Equinix MA1 (Williams House)
- Equinix MA1 (Kilburn House)
- Equinix MA5 (Unit 2 Agecroft Commerce Park)
- AQL DC2 (Salem Church)
- M247 DC1 (Ball Green)
- Infomaniak DIII (Satigny)
- Telehouse North (TFM23)
- Telehouse West (TFM120)
- Interxion LON2 (Hanbury Street)
BGP Communities
Our aut-num object in the RIPE database details some of our commonly-used BGP communities.
Communities Added by AS41495
- 41495:41495 — originated by Faelix
- 41495:64700 — learned from an upstream
- 41495:64701 — learned from a peer
- 41495:64702 — learned from a customer
We also tag routes learned in or originating from our main points of presence:
- 41495:65501 — learned in or originating from Equinix MA5
- 41495:65504 — learned in or originating from Telehouse West
- 41495:65505 — learned in or originating from AQL DC2
- 41495:65507 — learned in or originating from Infomaniak DIII
- 41495:65513 — learned in or originating from Equinix MA1 (Kilburn House)
- 41495:65514 — learned in or originating from Telehouse North
- 41495:65523 — learned in or originating from Equinix MA1 (Williams House)
- 41495:65524 — learned in or originating from Interxion LON2
Attack Mitigation
- 41495:666 — remotely-triggered blackhole (/32 or /128 announced to our route-servers)
- 41495:64666 — route to DDoS scrubbing (/24 announced to our transit routers)
These coarse-grained communities may also be helpful:
- 41495:64600 — do not announce to upstreams
- 41495:64601 — do not announce to peers
- 41495:64602 — do not announce to customers
Traffic Engineering and Route Propagation
Customers who take transit connectivity from AS41495 are able to tag their routes to adjust how we propagate them to our peers and upstreams. These communities are of the form 65XXY:ZZZZZ where:
| XX | In Location | Y | Do Action | ZZZZZ | To Upstream |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | everywhere | 0 | do not announce | 174 | Cogent |
| 1 | prepend once | 3223 | Voxility | ||
| XX | In POP | 2 | prepend twice | 3257 | GTT |
| 01 | Equinix MA5 | 3 | prepend thrice | 4455 | BSO/IXReach |
| 04 | Telehouse West | 9 | tag no-export | 6762 | TI Sparkle |
| 05 | AQL DC2 | 9002 | RETN | ||
| 13 | Equinix MA1 Kilburn | 35425 | Bytemark/iomart | ||
| 14 | Telehouse North | 29222 | Infomaniak | ||
| 23 | Equinix MA1 Williams | ||||
| 24 | Interxion LON2 | ZZZZZ | To Exchange | ||
| 5459 | LINX (any) | ||||
| XX | In City | 54590 | LINX Manchester | ||
| 40 | Manchester | 54591 | LINX LON1 | ||
| 41 | Leeds | 54592 | LINX LON2 | ||
| 42 | Geneva | 8550 | LONAP | ||
| 43 | London | 24115 | EquinixIX Manchester | ||
| 44 | Stockholm | 51526 | IXLeeds | ||
| 45 | Lyon | ||||
| ZZZZZ | To Peer | ||||
| XX | In Region | 6939 | Hurricane Electric | ||
| 50 | UK | ||||
| 51 | Mainland Europe | ZZZZZ | To Wildcard | ||
| 0 | Any Network |
Examples
- 65000:4455 — do not announce to BSO/IXReach
- 65230:3257 — do not announce to GTT in Williams House
- 65009:6939 — announce as no-export to Hurricane Electric
- 65003:54590 — 3x prepend on LINX Manchester
- 65052:35425 — 2x prepend to Bytemark/iomart in Leeds
- 65421:0 — 1x prepend to every network in Geneva
- 65510:0 — do not announce to any network in mainland Europe