[192998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent Router code updates during height of ecommerce season?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Dec 9 14:38:12 2016
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To: Justin Wilson <lists@mtin.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 11:38:05 -0800
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Subject: Re: Cogent Router code updates during height of ecommerce season?
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On 12/9/16 11:30 AM, Justin Wilson wrote:
> Are they not doing these during maintenance windows? Anytime we get a n=
otice from Cogent, Level3, Att they are always during a maintenance windo=
w at least a week ahead of time. We have yet to see any maintenance wind=
ow notifications from Hurricane Electric. Maybe our circuit has never ha=
d to have one in a few years. Or maybe they have so much redundancy it do=
esn=E2=80=99t matter and we never see the maintenance. =20
FWIW I have a few Cogent circuits, The maintenance look normalish and
are all scheduled per their normal process, I aware of at least one
cisco bug related to source mac usage they had that was annoying if not
catastrophic since it was visible on our ports.
>
> Justin Wilson
> j2sw@mtin.net
>
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>> On Dec 8, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> wrot=
e:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Over the last several days we have had interruptions at multiple times=
in our service with Cogent due to them performing router code updates on=
multiple nodes. I know that some companies put these sorts of updates on=
hold during the holiday season but I was wondering if anyone has heard o=
f any unannounced security flaws that only larger companies such as Cogen=
t would be privy to?
>>
>> I am certain that if you have heard of these flaws you cannot post the=
details but a simple yes or no about the existence of such a thing is pl=
enty for me.
>>
>> Happy Holidays
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Drew
>>
>
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