[85106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Oct 5 12:12:33 2005
In-Reply-To: <20051005155700.GW26898@virtual.bogons.net>
Cc: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:08:34 -0400
To: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 5-Oct-2005, at 11:57, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> On Wed Oct 05, 2005 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
>
>> I opened a billing/support ticket with Cogent. I'm not planning on
>> paying my bill or continuing the contract if they cannot provide full
>> BGP tables and full Internet transport (barring outages). Luckily I
>> have 2 other providers so I can still reach Level 3.
>
> We tried the same line with Level3 - and were told "Tough, we're
> not paying
> service credit. The transit still works, just its coverage is slightly
> different".
Cogent seem to be suggesting an alternate solution, which involves
them giving away free transit to l(3) customers. This might be useful
for some here who are feeling pain.
[I realise that there are probably at least nine sides to this story
and that the text here represents just one of them.]
http://status.cogentco.com/
>> Cogent Network Status/DNS Server Status Description:
>> Date: 10/05/2005
>>
>> Level 3 has partitioned its part of the Internet from Cogent's
>> part of the Internet by denying Level 3's customers access to
>> Cogent's customers and denying Cogent's customers access to Level
>> 3 customers. Level 3 terminated its peering with Cogent without
>> cause (as permitted under its peering agreement with Cogent) even
>> though both Cogent and Level 3 remained in full compliance with
>> the previously existing interconnection agreement.
>>
>> Cogent will offer any Level 3 customer, who is single homed to the
>> Level 3 network on the date of this notice, one year of full
>> Internet transit free of charge at the same bandwidth currently
>> being supplied by Level 3. Cogent will provide this connectivity
>> in over 1,000 locations throughout North America and Europe.
>>
>> Cogent is committed to an open Internet. The existing
>> interconnection facilities between Level 3 and Cogent remain
>> intact. Cogent hopes that Level 3 will reactivate these
>> connections, restoring a full level of service to their customers.
>>
>> For more information about the sales offer, please contact the
>> numbers listed below.
>> NORTH AMERICA: 1-877-875-4432
>> ANYWHERE ELSE IN EUROPE: +33 (0)6 1101-7382
>>
