Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

[Christopher Woodfield <rekoil () semihuman com>]

I am curious - how did prior depeering "events" wind up being  
eventually resolved? What were the resolution times, if anyone  
remembers?

-C

On Oct 5, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:

> 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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