Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

In the end, both providers lose, as customers buy real Internet transit 
from someone else.

OTOH, the industry as a whole probably gains.  I have a client who's 
massively overprovisioned, multihomed with multiple Ts each to 3 or 4 
providers now after being bitten a couple years ago when singlehomed to 
C&W and they depeered PSI.  Funny that those PSI customers are getting 
screwed again now.

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Christopher Woodfield wrote:

> Ah, the problem with playing chicken is what happens when neither player 
> blinks...
>
> -C
>
> On Oct 5, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> >
> >
> > > A couple weeks later than expected, but as of Oct 5 02:51AM EDT it looks
> > > like 3356 and 174 are no longer reachable.
> > >
> > > lg.level3.net:
> > >
> > > Show Level 3 (Washington, DC) BGP routes for 38.9.51.20
> > >
> > > No matching routes found for 38.9.51.20.
> > >
> > > www.cogentco.com looking glass:
> > >
> > > Tracing the route to www.Level3.com (209.245.19.42)
> > >
> > >  1 f29.ba01.b005944-0.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.250.56.189) 4 msec 4 
> > > msec 0 msec
> > >  2  *  *  *
> > >  3  *  *  *
> > >
> > > I guess the earlier reports of (3)'s lack of testicular fortitude may have
> > > been exagerated after all. :)
> >
> > It's sure causing a few headaches here.
> > (from level3 looking glass) Show Level 3 (London, England) BGP routes for 
> > 38.9.51.20
> >
> > No matching routes found for 38.9.51.20
> >
> > As of 16:22 BST Level3 still seems to have no routes for cogent's space. 
> > thats about 5 hours now.
> >
> >
> > Vince
> >
> >
> > > --
> > > Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
> > > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

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