Re: Whats going on at Cogent

[Jason Canady <jason () unlimitednet us>]

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 
> <mailto: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 
> > <mailto: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
> >     <mailto: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
> >         <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 <mailto:nanog () bakker net>> wrote:
> >
> >             * aaron1 () gvtc com <mailto: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.