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ISP Dispute Causing Connectivity Issues for Customers

Posted by Zonk on from the make-up-you-two-or-i'm-turning-this-interweb-around dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A peering dispute between Telia and Cogent is causing routing and connectivity problems for many internet users. Cogent shut down their connections to Telia over what they described as a 'contract dispute' over the size and location of their peering points. Telia attempted to route around the problem, but Cogent blocked that, too. This has caused a lot of trouble for sites which are not multi-homed. Groklaw, for example, is on a Cogent network (MCNC.demarc.cogentco.com), so any Europeans connecting via Telia can't get through."

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  1. That's what happens... by Doug52392 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This just goes to show you what happens when the money obsessed CEOs of corporations argue: The customers lose!

    First post btw :)

  2. Again? by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't this happen a few years back? Level3 and Cogent, IIRC

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    "I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
  3. Re:How much for only half an Internet? by bagboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you people even read your TOS? You are not guaranteed anything without an SLA.

  4. Re:Route around? by dave562 · · Score: 4, Informative
    You're missing the fact that at the upper tiers of the internet, there are only so many routes available. There are simply somethings that can't be routed around because the ONLY route to where you want to go involves passing packets across the network you are trying to route around. Consider a smaller example. You want to route traffic to a Verizon DSL customer. Verizon has decided it doesn't want to pass your packets to the DSL customer. No matter how you try to route it, since Verizon sold the DSL service and controls the last few hops in the route, you simply can't route to the customer any other way.

    The current issue involves "peering arrangements/agreements." Do a Google search if you want an in depth explination of what exactly a peering arrangement is all about. The short version is that ISPs agree to pass each others traffic across their networks. That's the way the internet works. Every ISP can't have a router in every place that a router needs to be placed. So they "share" each routes with each other.