google ipv6 routes via cogent

Thu Mar 2 14:05:11 UTC 2017

Cogent refuses to settlement-free peer on IPv6 to Google and Hurricane Electric.

The problem *in my mind* rests with Cogent trying to extract $$$ from said parties.

Regards,
Marty Strong
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Cloudflare - AS13335
Network Engineer
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> On 25 Feb 2017, at 15:49, Aaron <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm new to the nanog list, hope this isn't out of scope for what is
> usually discussed here.
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> Cogent is telling me that I can't route through cogent to get to google ipv6
> routes (particularly the well known dns addresses 2001:4860:4860::88xx)
> because google decided not to advertise those route to one of their mutual
> peers.
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> 
> Anyone know anything about this ?  .and why it happened and when it will be
> resolved ?
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> 
> -Aaron
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