Provider: Vultr (AS20473).

Original Document AS20473 BGP Communities Customer Guide (Vultr; source updated 23 October 2026; retrieved 2026-11-09)


Informational Communities

Prefix Type

Community                Large community              Prefix Type
20473:100                20473:100:transit-as         Prefix learned from Transit
20473:200                20473:200:ixp-as             Prefix learned from Public Peer via route servers
20473:200                20473:200:ixp-as, 20473:200:peer-as Prefix learned from Public Peer via bilateral peering
20473:300                20473:300:peer-as            Prefix learned from Private Peer
20473:4000                                            Prefix originated by Customer
20473:500                                             Prefix originated by 20473
20473:peer-as            20473:peer-type:peer-as      Prefix learned from AS number (if ≤ 65535)

Location

United States

Community                POP
20473:14                 Atlanta, GA
20473:13                 Chicago, IL
20473:15                 Dallas, TX
20473:34                 Honolulu, HI
20473:17                 Los Angeles, CA
20473:12                 Miami, FL
20473:11                 Piscataway, NJ
20473:18                 San Jose, CA
20473:47                 Saint Louis, MO
20473:16                 Seattle, WA

Other North and South America

Community                POP
20473:28                 Mexico, MX
20473:42                 Santiago, CL
20473:30                 Sao Paulo, BR
20473:33                 Toronto, CA

Europe

Community                POP
20473:20                 Amsterdam, NL
20473:22                 Frankfurt, DE
20473:19                 London, GB
20473:31                 Madrid, ES
20473:46                 Manchester, GB
20473:38                 Milan, IT
20473:21                 Paris, FR
20473:27                 Stockholm, SE
20473:29                 Warsaw, PL

Asia

Community                POP
20473:43                 Bangalore, IN
20473:26                 Korea, KR
20473:35                 Mumbai, IN
20473:44                 New Delhi, IN
20473:45                 Osaka, JP
20473:25                 Singapore, SG
20473:36                 Tel Aviv, IL
20473:23                 Tokyo, JP

Oceania

Community                POP
20473:32                 Melbourne, AU
20473:24                 Sydney, AU

Africa

Community                POP
20473:37                 Johannesburg, ZA

Action Communities

Community                Large community              Action
64600:peer-as            20473:6000:peer-as           Do not advertise to specific AS
64601:peer-as            20473:6001:peer-as           Prepend 1x to specific AS
64602:peer-as            20473:6002:peer-as           Prepend 2x to specific AS
64603:peer-as            20473:6003:peer-as           Prepend 3x to specific AS
64609:peer-as            20473:6009:peer-as           Set Metric to 0 to specific AS
64699:peer-as            20473:6099:peer-as           Override 20473:6000 to specific AS
20473:6000                                            Do not advertise out of AS20473
20473:6001                                            Prepend 1x to all peers
20473:6002                                            Prepend 2x to all peers
20473:6003                                            Prepend 3x to all peers
20473:64609                                           Set Metric to 0 to all peers
20473:6601                                            Do not announce to IXP peers
20473:6602                                            Override "do not advertise" for IX route servers (not bilateral peers)
20473:6603                                            Override "do not advertise" for IX route servers & peers
20473:666                                             Export blackhole to all peers

Other BGP Communities

Location: the page states that a route also carries 20473:PP (PP = the POP code above) and the large
community 20473:0:3RRRCCC1PP (RRR = UN M49 region, CCC = UN M49 country, PP = POP code).
Other BGP communities: AS20473 passes communities set by customers transparently to its transit providers and peers.

The above information was collected from docs.vultr.com, using
object “AS20473 BGP Communities Customer Guide” on 2026-11-09