[54240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Basil Kruglov)
Wed Dec 18 13:25:02 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:24:31 -0600
From: Basil Kruglov <basil@cifnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021218181202.GN56949@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:12:02PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> 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.
is it really idle ?
Why wouldn't Cogent create a community string to provide its multihomed
customers with prepend 16631 (or customer asn) to Level3 peering sessions
to control inbounds better?
-Basil
