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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. Re:How much for only half an Internet? by Spazmania · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After the Cogent/Level 3 spat a few years ago, smarter network engineers realized it wasn't safe to use either Cogent or Level 3 as their sole Internet provider. Second provider? Sure. But not sole.

    After this Cogent/Telia spat, no one with a brain will pick Cogent as their sole Internet provider.

    This won't hurt Cogent too deeply. They charge so little for bandwidth that it's hard to resist picking them as your #2.

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  2. Yep by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quite a house of cards our fragile infrastructure has become. Somebody says "bomb" in San Francisco, and your flight from Mobile to Nashville will be grounded. A disagreement over the price causes droughts and blackouts in California. And our super robust internet can cut off whole countries with the snip of a cable or a flip of a switch. That's no way to run a circus, I say.

    This message was brought to you by... BIGCO...where the nose meets the grindstone.

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