[85115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Wed Oct 5 14:34:05 2005
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:43:51 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1A1975C3-EC89-4A75-9864-51EF6328BFF8@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
>>>
>>
>> I'm curious where in your contract you think Cogent guaranteed you
>> connectivity to Level 3?
>
Undereducated rant to follow...
While I realize that the "nuke survivable" thing is probably an old
wives tale, it seems ridiculous that "the Internet" can't adjust by
routing any packets that used to go directly from Cogent to Level 3
though some 3rd (and) 4th (and) 5th set of providers that are connected
in some fashion to both...
Level 3 and Cogent can't be operating in a vacuums - if we can get to
Kevin Bacon in 6 degrees, Level 3 and Cogent should be able to get to
each other in under 30 hops through other providers.
And why isn't this apparently happening automatically? Pardon the
density of my brain matter here, but I thought that was what BGP was all
about?
I welcome any education the group wishes to drop on me in this matter.
--
Jeff Shultz
