IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

Mon Oct 12 21:27:49 UTC 2009

Funny enough, we've been looking at moving from 174 to HE for a large
amount of traffic, and this discussion is making the decision *a lot*
easier.

On 10/12/09, Dave Temkin <davet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

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