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Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering
An anonymous reader brings an update to Sprint's depeering with Cogent, which we discussed a few days back — namely, Sprint's side of the story. According to them, no free peering contract had ever existed, Cogent refused to pay the bills to exchange traffic, and after a year Sprint gave Cogent 30 days notice of their intent to disconnect. During this 30-day period, when one or two connections (out of ten) per week were shut down, Cogent made no alternate arrangements to alleviate the impact on their customers — but they had a press release ready when Sprint snipped the final wire. It will be interesting to see how Cogent responds.
They're unreachable due to no internet connection.
So yeah, some routers might need to update their tables, but otherwise, we're still connected. Proving the ARPANET design once again.
See, Al Gore really was a genius.
Are they connected again? The traffic is flowing.
The Spacing Guild must have complained.
The spice must flow!
Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet 404 comments
Does that mean that /. is using Cogent now?
Wait a minute? Are you saying companies aren't allowed to just lie in public whenever they like? This doesn't seem to be enforced very often.
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Think of it this way: I am an apartment complex and I have an agreement to mow my neighbor's lawn and in exchange he shovels my sidewalk.
Hmmm, couldn't you just use a car-analogy?
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
There should have been a car somewhere in that analogy.. besides that, it's a good one.
Or at least a golf cart anyway.