Cogent cutting links to Russia?

Sat Mar 5 15:17:01 UTC 2022

Some are suggesting that the disconnect by Cogent is financially motivated.
However, it could also be that given the quick rise in cyber warfare that
they do not want to be caught in the crossfire and carrying and dealing
with the loads of DDOS and pure hacking attempts going in both directions.
The burden of dealing with this as well as payment issues and maybe for
purely ethical issues of dealing with a proven lying dictatorship may have
been the full motivation.

Nicole

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:41 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 4, 2022, at 13:14 , Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/4/22 3:52 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> >> I would argue they don't have much of a choice:
> >>
> >> "The economic sanctions put in place as a result of the invasion and the
> >> increasingly uncertain security situation make it impossible for Cogent
> to
> >> continue to provide you with service."
> >
> > But Tier 1's don't pay for peering.
>
> Rostelecom isn’t a tier one.
>
> Owen
>
>

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