IPv6 Cogent vs Hurricane Electric

Sat Dec 5 02:47:35 UTC 2015

Is "tier" even a thing anymore?
On Dec 4, 2015 8:46 PM, "Paul S." <contact at winterei.se> wrote:

> It is worth noting that HE indeed provides the full view, it's the other
> side that has an issue.
>
> (Since HE isn't really a tier 1, their transit relationships with Telia
> and other carriers "save" them)
>
> Cogent -> HE dies with unreachable on the first hop though, and that's an
> issue for Cogent customers.
>
> On 12/5/2015 11:09 AM, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
>
>> On 5 December 2015 at 02:43, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>>
>> Or, if you feel that Cogent's stubborn insistence on partitioning the
>>>> global v6 internet
>>>>
>>> if A does not peer with B,
>>> then for all A and B
>>> they are evil partitioners?
>>>
>>> can we lower the rhetoric?
>>>
>>> They both loses on this. In fact anyone claiming tier 1 status loses
>> here,
>> because this illustrates why you can never be single homed on a tier 1
>> network. These guys simply do not have the full internet.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Baldur
>>
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