IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

Mon Oct 12 21:16:46 UTC 2009

Marco Hogewoning wrote:
>> Cogent:  You are absolutely insane.  You are doing nothing but 
>> alienating your customers and doing a disservice to IPv6 and the 
>> internet as a whole.
>>
>> You are publishing AAAA records for www.cogentco.com, which means 
>> that I CANNOT reach it to even look at your looking glass.  I send my 
>> prefixes to 4436, 22822, and 6939 and you are not peering with any of 
>> them.  Why not peer, for FREE, with 6939?  What could you possibly 
>> gain from NOT doing this?  HE is NOT going to buy transit from you 
>> (nor am I).  Please fix your policy.
>
>
> May I suggest to vote with your feet and take your business somewhere 
> else. They obviously are not interested in you, your traffic or your 
> money.
>
> MarcoH
>
Already done.  All they are doing is continuing to provide fodder for 
engineers to tell their bosses why to NOT consider 174 transit when it's 
brought up.

-Dave