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Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet

Posted by timothy on from the is-that-an-ectomy-or-an-otomy? dept.

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."

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  1. While you still have connectivity by really? · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK everyone, while you still have connectivity login to your boxes and do your OS's/distribution's equivalent of "apt-get install UUCP"

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  2. Re:So what is Sprint providing its customers? by Ihmhi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you write it again as a car analogy? I'm lost here.

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  3. Re:Guess what? by Aladrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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