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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 06:23:32 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Gary Funck <gary () intrepid com> Date: October 7, 2005 8:53:36 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] Network feud leads to Net blackout
From: edward.vielmetti () gmail com Date: October 6, 2005 1:23:21 AM EDT
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Network feud leads to Net blackout By John Borland Two major Net companies stop exchanging traffic, cutting off access to each other's networks for some customers. http://news.com.com/Network+feud+leads+to+Net+blackout/ 2100-1038_3-5889592.html?tag=sas.email
short url: http://tinyurl.com/8udl6 As a small Cogent user, we've been less than amused, and found little comfort in Ken Organski's "correlates of war" work. In our limited experience, both ISP's have dealt this disruption onto their users rather abruptly, and frankly it would serve them right if users on both sides of the fence picked up their business and took it elsewhere. At the monent it seems that service has been restored, http://status.cogentco.com/ and that for now, L3 had to eat their words: "The Level 3 representative said the company was unlikely to reconsider its position, however." I wonder if this was really true: "The problem is likely to affect only a small number of each company's customers. Many network company customers have several connections to the Internet and can use an alternate connection to reach a site that might otherwise be blocked" Some of the IP readers may find Cogent's response earlier this week to be somewhat eddifying and/or entertaining: ====== 10/5/05 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. Many Level 3 customers can still exchange traffic with Cogent customers because the Level 3 customer is multi- homed, i.e. it also has a connection to Cogent or to one of the many other networks with which Cogent has a peering relationship. As described below Cogent is offering a solution to Level 3 customers that are not multi-homed. Cogent will offer any Level 3 customer, who is single homed to the Level 3 network as of October 5, 2005, 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. *Level 3 is a communications services company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. Like Cogent, it operates one of the largest communications and Internet backbones in the world. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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