[NANOG] Resolved: Cogent having problems

Fri Sep 1 15:33:26 UTC 2006

On 1 Sep 2006, at 16:22, Myke Lyons wrote:

>
> From the ISC:
>
> "We have received a report of the Cogent Data Center in Herndon, VA  
> having connectivity problems.  It appears to be localized.  No need  
> to innundate them with phone calls, I am sure they are working on it.
>
> One of our readers, Colin, called into the data center:  "I called  
> their support staff and got through to a guy who described the  
> situation as a network problem 'affecting all traffic in their data  
> center'."
>
> More on this situation if more develops...
>
>
> Update #1It appears that sometime on Wednesday that the problems  
> were more widespread, as they had some latency problems up in New  
> York as well, as reported by another reader.  However it appears  
> that the problems had been resolved as of Thursday.  No report yet  
> on if the problem at the Herndon, Virginia office has been resolved."
>
> Happy Fridays
>
> .myke

Apparently it was only scheduled (poorly communicated) maintenance on  
fibre links.

.myke