Re: Whats going on at Cogent

[Aaron1 <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

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Aaron

> On Oct 19, 2018, at 9:54 PM, Jason Canady <jason () unlimitednet us> wrote:
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> 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:
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> > > 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&;
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> > > > Troy Mursch
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> > > > > 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
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> > > > > 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
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> > > > > 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
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> > > > > Aaron
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> > > > > 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
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 19:22, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net> wrote:
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> > > > > * 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?
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> > > > >
> > > > >         -- Niels.