Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Wed Oct 5 16:32:10 UTC 2005

In the end, both providers lose, as customers buy real Internet transit 
from someone else.

OTOH, the industry as a whole probably gains.  I have a client who's 
massively overprovisioned, multihomed with multiple Ts each to 3 or 4 
providers now after being bitten a couple years ago when singlehomed to 
C&W and they depeered PSI.  Funny that those PSI customers are getting 
screwed again now.

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Christopher Woodfield wrote:

>
> Ah, the problem with playing chicken is what happens when neither player 
> blinks...
>
> -C
>
> On Oct 5, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> A couple weeks later than expected, but as of Oct 5 02:51AM EDT it looks
>>> like 3356 and 174 are no longer reachable.
>>> 
>>> lg.level3.net:
>>> 
>>> Show Level 3 (Washington, DC) BGP routes for 38.9.51.20
>>> 
>>> No matching routes found for 38.9.51.20.
>>> 
>>> www.cogentco.com looking glass:
>>> 
>>> Tracing the route to www.Level3.com (209.245.19.42)
>>> 
>>>  1 f29.ba01.b005944-0.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.250.56.189) 4 msec 4 
>>> msec 0 msec
>>>  2  *  *  *
>>>  3  *  *  *
>>> 
>>> I guess the earlier reports of (3)'s lack of testicular fortitude may have
>>> been exagerated after all. :)
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> It's sure causing a few headaches here.
>> (from level3 looking glass) Show Level 3 (London, England) BGP routes for 
>> 38.9.51.20
>> 
>> No matching routes found for 38.9.51.20
>> 
>> As of 16:22 BST Level3 still seems to have no routes for cogent's space. 
>> thats about 5 hours now.
>> 
>> 
>> Vince
>> 
>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
>>> GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>

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