Whats going on at Cogent

Fri Oct 19 21:47:51 UTC 2018

Yes I noticed that last week, it is very slow

Aaron

> On Oct 19, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Ryan Gelobter <ryan.g at andthenwegotpaycuts.com> wrote:
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> Has anyone else noticed their ecogent portal is super fucking slow? Back in the day it used to be fast
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>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM Troy Mursch <troy at wolvtech.com> wrote:
>> Cogent has done well to remediate the compromised MikroTik routers on their network. 3,000 IPv4 hosts were found on Aug. 25 (https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1033256704941514752) and today, only a hundred: https://censys.io/ipv4?q=%28%28%28%22CoinHive.Anonymous%22%29+AND+%28MikroTik%29%29+AND+location.country_code%3A+US%29+AND+autonomous_system.description.raw%3A+%22COGENT-174+-+Cogent+Communications%22&
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>> Troy Mursch
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>>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:05 PM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
>>> I guess those bots have to sit somewhere.  I don’t know that they would be in routers as much as they would be in Microsoft Windows… so if that’s what you meant, then I see what you mean Michael
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>>> Niels, I like my cogent and telia internet connections… I just recall seeing more ddos on cogent then I did on my previous att, and current spectrum… telia is showing a good bit of ddos also
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>>> Let’s put it this way, I can thank Cogent and Telia for helping my get better in my ddos mitigation skills  J   … there’s a bright side to everything huh
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>>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Michael Crapse
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:37 PM
>>> To: NANOG list
>>> Subject: Re: Whats going on at Cogent
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>>> Or he's saying that cogent has the biggest network of compromised users. Usually ipv4 only eyeball networks tend to have the most bots on net.
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>>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 19:22, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog at bakker.net> wrote:
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>>> * aaron1 at gvtc.com (Aaron1) [Wed 17 Oct 2018, 00:17 CEST]:
>>> >However Cogent seems to be the dirtiest in regards to DDOS...
>>> >however Telia might be catching up... in times past when I receive 
>>> >volumetric DDOS, Cogent typically ranks with the highest on my 
>>> >providers ... AT&T and spectrum seem to be a bit cleaner
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>>> So you're saying, Cogent and Telia have the best backbones and 
>>> interconnects and thus deliver the most of your traffic to you, 
>>> even at times of peak utilization?
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>>>         -- Niels.
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