Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2008 @05:05PM 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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Re:disruptive pricing by Lennie · 2008-10-30 20:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Everyone ?:
Get BGP+IPv6+IPv4 for $5/Mbps!
http://www.he.net/

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Re:Guess what? by ozphx · 2008-10-30 23:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If only I had mod points sir, I would give you them.

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