RFC1918 and other reserved networks and subnets are not permitted;
advertisements with private AS numbers in the path (i.e. 64512 - 65535) are not
permitted;
advertisements tagged with communities other than the ones defined in Section II
“Customer Accepted Communities” will be stripped;
customer sessions are prefix-list and AS-path filtered inbound;
prefixes shorter than /8 or longer than /24 are not permitted;
a hard limit is placed on the number of routes a peer is allowed to announce to us. This
number is based on customer’s registered routes;
local preference is set to 170 by default, subject to modification based on received
communities as outlined in Section II.
RFC1918 and other reserved networks and subnets are not announced;
prefixes with private AS numbers in the path (i.e. 64512 - 65535) are not announced;
prefixes longer than /24 are not announced;
communities are stripped.
30844:1170 – set local preference 170
30844:1165 – set local preference 165
Customer received prefixes by default have their LocalPref set to 170.
Customer accepted communities allow prepend or supress to peer AS, where:
peer AS has a peering connection to Liquid Telecom
peer AS is not a customer of Liquid Telecom
65001:0 - prepend Liquid AS once to all peers
65002:0 – prepend Liquid AS twice to all peers
65003:0 – prepend Liquid AS 3x to all peers
65001:1 - prepend Liquid AS once to all European peers
65002:1 – prepend Liquid AS twice to all European peers
65003:1 – prepend Liquid AS 3x to all European peers
65001:2 - prepend Liquid AS once to all African peers
65002:2 – prepend Liquid AS twice to all African peers
65003:2 – prepend Liquid AS 3x to all African peers
65001:6453 - prepend Liquid AS once to TATA
65002:6453 - prepend Liquid AS twice to TATA
65003:6453 - prepend Liquid AS 3x to TATA
65001:2914 - prepend Liquid AS once to NTT
65002:2914 - prepend Liquid AS twice to NTT
65003:2914 - prepend Liquid AS 3x to NTT
65001:6762 – prepend to Liquid AS once to TIS
65002:6762 – prepend to Liquid AS twice to TIS
65003:6762 – prepend to Liquid AS 3x to TIS
65001:5511 - prepend Liquid AS once to Orange
65002:5511 - prepend Liquid AS twice to Orange
65003:5511 - prepend Liquid AS 3x to Orange
65001:3356 - prepend Liquid AS once to Lumen
65002:3356 - prepend Liquid AS twice to Lumen
65003:3356 - prepend Liquid AS 3x to Lumen
65001:3 - prepend Liquid AS once to all American peers
65002:3 – prepend Liquid AS twice to all American peers
65003:3 – prepend Liquid AS 3x to all American peers
65001:174 - prepend Liquid AS once to COGENT
65002:174 - prepend Liquid AS twice to COGENT
65003:174 - prepend Liquid AS 3x to COGENT
65001:8075 - prepend Liquid AS 1x to Microsoft PNI
65002:8075 - prepend Liquid AS 2x to Microsoft PNI
65003:8075 - prepend Liquid AS 3x to Microsoft PNI
64666:1 – do not announce to European peers
64666:3 - do not announce to European IXP peers
64666:2 – do not announce to African peers
64666:6453 – do not announce to TATA
64666:2914 – do not announce to NTT
64666:6762 – do not announce to TIS
64666:5511 - do not announce to Orange
64666:37195 - do not announce to NAP Africa (Johannesburg, ZA)
64667:37195 - do not announce to NAP Africa (Cape Town, ZA)
64666:37700 - do not announce to JINX (Johannesburg, ZA)
64666:37701 - do not announce to CINX (Cape Town, ZA)
64666:37704 - do not announce to KIXP (Nairobi, KE)
64666:33791 - do not announce to TIX (Dar es Salaam, TZ)
64666:8966 - do not announce to SH-IX (Fujairah, UAE)
64666:36932 - do not announce to IXPN (Lagos, NG)
64666:15169 - do not announce to Google peering
64666:21357 - do not announce to Akamai
64666:3356 – do not announce to Lumen
64666:63293 - do not announce to Facebook caches
64666:16509 – do not announce to Amazon in Africa
64666:4809 - do not announce to China Telecom
64666:4 – do not announce to American IXP
64666:174 – do not announce to COGENT
64666:43729 - do not announce to DEC-IX Lisbon (Lisbon, PT)
64666:20717 - do not announce to DEC-IX Marseille (Marseille, FR)
64666:42064 - do not announce to FRANCE-IX Marseille (Marseille, FR)
64666:6695 - do not announce to DEC-IX Frankfurt (Frankfurt, DE)
64666:6777 - do not announce to AMS-IX (Amsterdam, NL)
64666:8714 - do not announce to LINX London (London, UK)[MC1] [MV2]
64666:24115 - do not announce to EQUINX London (London, UK)
64666:241150 - do not announce to EQUINX Miami (Miami, US
64666:8075 - do not announce to Microsoft PNI
64666:40027 - do not announce to Netflix CDN
64666:2906 - do not announce to Netflix PNI
64666:21357 - do not announce to Akamai caches
64666:20940 - do not announce to Akamai PNI
IP Transit customers can advertise a prefix to Liquid Telecom with any of the blackhole
communities specified below.
This will cause the next-hop for that prefix to be set to Null0 across Liquid Telecom or
Liquid Telecom’s Upstream provider(s).
17216:30844 – blackhole prefix across Liquid Telecom
17216:2914 - blackhole prefix across NTT only
17216:6453 - blackhole prefix across TATA only
17216:6762 - blackhole prefix across TIS only
17216:5511 – blackhole prefix across Orange only
17216:3356 - blackhole prefix across Lumen only
17216:4809 - blackhole prefix across China Telecom only