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Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops


From: ryanL <ryan.landry () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 11:51:00 -0700

circling back on this, i guess my case with cogent has been escalated to vp
engineering, and i've had a few people reply on and off list citing the
same problems. i encourage you to open up cases to help demonstrate further
examples (ie: it's not just me!)

thx everyone.

ryan


On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:03 AM, ryanL <ryan.landry () gmail com> wrote:

hi. relatively new cogent customer. is what i've stated in my subject line
kinda standard fare with them?

i've discovered that when i advertise a /24 from inside a larger /22 to
XO, (who peers with cogent), and then pull the /24 some time later, that
cogent holds onto the /24 and then bounces packets around in their network
a bunch of times for upwards of 8-10 minutes until they finally yank it.
this effectively blackholes traffic to my /24 for anyone that is using a
path thru cogent.

example: http://ryry.foursquare.com/image/0e0K1K0t0W2M

it's been a bit of a frustrating experience talking to their noc to
demonstrate it, but i'm able to duplicate it on demand. even pushing routes
using their communities to offload the circuit takes forever to propagate
even on their own looking-glasses.

thx

ryan



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