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Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet
superbus1929 writes "I work as a security analyst at an internet security company. While troubleshooting an issue, we learned why our customer couldn't keep his site-to-site VPN going from any location that uses Sprint as its ISP: Sprint has decided not to route traffic to Cogent due to litigation. This has a chilling effect; already, this person I worked with cannot communicate between a few sites of his, and since Sprint is stopping the connections cold (my traceroutes showed as complete, and not as timing out), it means that there is no backup plan; anyone going to Cogent from a Sprint ISP is crap out of luck."
Cogent runs the second largest tier-1 backbone on the planet and it is widely used by the adult industry. The headline should read:
Sprint cockpunches own customers by disconnecting them from porn.
/I run a few dozen porn servers on Cogent links
//Sprint can suck my balls
Nothing worthwhile ever happens before noon
I thought I was buying a DIA circuit - as in Direct Internet Access - but apparently you don't exactly do that. That's a breach of contract - that's a violation of your SLA - I want out of my contract now
Sprint's reply: "Okay *flip*. Call us when you realize that getting a T1/T3 takes weeks. By the way, we charge a $1000 installation fee."
Please help metamoderate.
OK everyone, while you still have connectivity login to your boxes and do your OS's/distribution's equivalent of "apt-get install UUCP"
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley
Can you write it again as a car analogy? I'm lost here.
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If you start putting your car through the tubes ...
I talk about stuff.
"is that the mathematician's love for bizarre, pedantic arguments stays in the ivory towers."
You've obviously never had a mathematician over for dinner.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Please parse this sentence from that article:
Schaeffer, 52, sees that as both obsolete and silly, like an electric company trying to bill its customers more for kilowatts used gets broken down into ones and zeros, all networks serve only one purpose: moving those bits from one place to another.
Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.