Posted on 10/05/2005 9:46:53 AM PDT by Democrat for Bush
You can complain to your ISP, but it is really out of their hands. The only way this will be fixed is if Cogent and Level3 sort out their differences (who knows) or until the rest of the Internet has time to route around what is a major rift (which could take days).
Thanks:) I work from my home office- have Roadrunner- and use the internet all day for work.
DANG.
The sites you can access will vary depending on which side of the rift you are on. From best I can tell, there are 5500 networks that are part of the Internet that have restricted visibility at the moment. Networks that are affected by this will appear to have no route.
Palo Alto. Every time I try to get out, it pulls me back in. I am a principle at a network operator (among many other things), and as a consequence am far more aware of the internals of telecom and backbone politics than most. Still, I think this is the worst thing to happen to the Internet since Akamai's DNS imploded, and in this particular case it is intentional.
Since BGP (how routing is normally managed) is being blackholed in this pissing match, the Internet is being manually patched with static routes in many cases. This is a major pain and takes a lot of network engineer time that otherwise should not be necessary. Expect parts of the network to be bridged incrementally by providers.
If you are a Desert_Girl, then what are you doing in Houston? :-)
Drudge has been off several hours.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497398/posts
LOL! I think we started our threads at the same moment!!
Thanks:)
I have a dog in this fight too, but I would add that 1) Cogent is an industry bottom feeder, and 2) they've tried some less than friendly strong-arm tactics in the past. Mostly though, I think our network engineers would just be happy if this problem went away, as disinterested but affected network operators.
Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer contested that claim, saying that its network is at least as big as Level 3's, and that it makes no sense to pay for the connection. Cogent is offering any Level 3 user who can't get to Cogent sites free Internet service for a year, in an attempt to attract its rival's customers.
Previous Next "Our goal is to have this problem go away, whether through Level 3 reconsidering or their customers coming to us," Schaeffer said.
hmmmm.
I use another name elsewhere on the internet, and a dear friend took that name and kinda sorta manipulated it around until it became Desert Girl, so when I joined here, I thought it was time for a change. Desert Girl it is!
I was in Los Angeles on a T3 line earlier and got Drudge.
I am now on a POS connection through Earthlink and no-Drudge... and soon no more Earthlink! :-)
yeah, we saw that earlier too. it won't change Level 3's mind... but customers who move there might be pretty disappointed given that Level 3 carries far more internet traffic than Cogent does. it will also be compounded when other backbone providers get wise, smell blood, and cancel their peering sessions with Cogent as well. as of right now, cogent is passing even MORE traffic over the other peers than before because it obviously hasn't come up with a fiber optic backbone of its own since this morning, and so is relying even more upon other carriers to pass their traffic back and forth.
that won't make AT&T, sprint, UUNET, or others very happy. they're already carrying cogent's water and just hadn't gotten the cajones to do what Level 3 decided to do.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497398/posts
I can log onto Level 3 but not Cogent. Several of the sites I need for work aren't accessible right now either. ggrrrr.
All due respect to you, I am just a consumer caught in this web, but you said it yourself, you do have a dog in this fight. You will understand if I take other perspectives into consideration.
ineed, and good luck! ;)
Dadgumit now you've gone and published his top secret algorithm for website automation.
;-)
Don't know if something changed, but we can again access Drudge Report. Let's hope everything is resolved - permanently. Wahoo!
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