[142144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent depeers ESnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George B.)
Sun Jun 19 02:45:42 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DFD424F.6080300@foobar.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:44:28 -0700
From: "George B." <georgeb@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Slightly old news, but it looks like Cogent depeered ESnet last week:
>
>>
>> http://www.es.net/news-and-publications/esnet-news/2011/important-status-announcement-regarding-cogent-connectivity/
>
> Current traceroutes indicate that ESnet is reaching Cogent via 6939_1299.
>
> In other news, automatically dropping interconnects at around the time of
> your HQ's close of business while your peering co-ordinator is on vacation
> seems to be the new gold standard.
>
> Nick
I suppose the moral of the story is: "never single-home to Cogent"
