[85123] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James)
Wed Oct 5 15:12:06 2005
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:58:08 -0400
From: James <haesu@towardex.com>
To: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <434410D7.80003@wvi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:43:51AM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:
>
> 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...
This isn't 6bone. People don't give transit to everyone w/o being asked for or
otherwise being purchased for :)
James
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