[54239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Wed Dec 18 13:12:36 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:12:02 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: william@elan.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212180821310.2311-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:44:55AM -0800, william@elan.net wrote:
>
> AOL (AS1668) stopped peering with cogent yesterday for reasons they did
> not disclose publicly. Cogent sends same letter to all customers who
> asked for what is going on and in the letter they say that two weeks
> ago, peering to AOL was upgraded to OC48 from OC12 and now for some
> reason AOL stopped peering and if somebody has questions they should call
> AOL to complain .. (with phone# to their NOC provided in the letter
> - not very nice thing to do it like this in my opinion).
If nothing else, Cogent could be using their idle 6461 transit, instead of
grandstanding by overloading their Level 3 capacity so they can blame AOL.
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