Re: Whats going on at Cogent

[Josh Luthman <josh () imaginenetworksllc com>]

Portal takes a good long time for me to log in (I just got a circuit in the
last week) but after ~30 seconds to log in, it seems pretty responsive.


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On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Jason Canady <jason () unlimitednet us>
wrote:

> It's been slow for quite some time now. I only find it useful for billing
> purposes.  It's a shame carriers don't have a good ticket system.
>
> Jason Canady
> Unlimited Net, LLC
> Responsive, Reliable, Secure
>
> On 10/19/18 5:47 PM, Aaron1 wrote:
>
> Yes I noticed that last week, it is very slow
>
> Aaron
>
> On Oct 19, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Ryan Gelobter <ryan.g () andthenwegotpaycuts com>
> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else noticed their ecogent portal is super fucking slow? Back
> in the day it used to be fast
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM Troy Mursch <troy () wolvtech com> wrote:
>
> > Cogent has done well to remediate the compromised MikroTik routers on
> > their network. 3,000 IPv4 hosts were found on Aug. 25 (
> > https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1033256704941514752) and today,
> > only a hundred: https://censys.io/ipv4?q=%28%28%28%22CoinHive.
> > Anonymous%22%29+AND+%28MikroTik%29%29+AND+location.
> > country_code%3A+US%29+AND+autonomous_system.description.
> > raw%3A+%22COGENT-174+-+Cogent+Communications%22&
> >
> > __
> >
> > *Troy Mursch*
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:05 PM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
> >
> > > I guess those bots have to sit somewhere.  I don’t know that they would
> > > be in routers as much as they would be in Microsoft Windows… so if that’s
> > > what you meant, then I see what you mean Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Niels, I like my cogent and telia internet connections… I just recall
> > > seeing more ddos on cogent then I did on my previous att, and current
> > > spectrum… telia is showing a good bit of ddos also
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Let’s put it this way, I can thank Cogent and Telia for helping my get
> > > better in my ddos mitigation skills  ☺   … there’s a bright side to
> > > everything huh
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Aaron
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *From:* NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] *On Behalf Of *Michael
> > > Crapse
> > > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:37 PM
> > > *To:* NANOG list
> > > *Subject:* Re: Whats going on at Cogent
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Or he's saying that cogent has the biggest network of compromised users.
> > > Usually ipv4 only eyeball networks tend to have the most bots on net.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 19:22, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > * aaron1 () gvtc com (Aaron1) [Wed 17 Oct 2018, 00:17 CEST]:
> > > > However Cogent seems to be the dirtiest in regards to DDOS...
> > > > however Telia might be catching up... in times past when I receive
> > > > volumetric DDOS, Cogent typically ranks with the highest on my
> > > > providers ... AT&T and spectrum seem to be a bit cleaner
> > >
> > > So you're saying, Cogent and Telia have the best backbones and
> > > interconnects and thus deliver the most of your traffic to you,
> > > even at times of peak utilization?
> > >
> > >
> > >         -- Niels.