Whats going on at Cogent

Sat Oct 20 02:54:29 UTC 2018

It's been slow for quite some time now. I only find it useful for 
billing purposes.  It's a shame carriers don't have a good ticket system.

Jason Canady
Unlimited Net, LLC
Responsive, Reliable, Secure

On 10/19/18 5:47 PM, Aaron1 wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:ryan.g at andthenwegotpaycuts.com>> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else noticed their ecogent portal is super fucking slow? 
>> Back in the day it used to be fast
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM Troy Mursch <troy at wolvtech.com 
>> <mailto: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&
>>
>>     __
>>
>>     *Troy Mursch*
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:05 PM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com
>>     <mailto: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
>>
>>         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
>>
>>         Let’s put it this way, I can thank Cogent and Telia for
>>         helping my get better in my ddos mitigation skills ☺… there’s
>>         a bright side to everything huh
>>
>>         Aaron
>>
>>         *From:*NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org
>>         <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
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>         On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 19:22, Niels Bakker
>>         <niels=nanog at bakker.net <mailto:nanog at bakker.net>> wrote:
>>
>>             * aaron1 at gvtc.com <mailto: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
>>
>>             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?
>>
>>
>>                     -- Niels.
>>

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