Re: What happened to Cogent?

[David Coulson <david () davidcoulson net>]

I wasn't expecting things to get fixed by posting on Nanog. I was hoping 
to get information from someone who had maybe already called Cogent 
since their phones were slammed when i tried to call.

Matthew Crocker wrote:
> I'm guessing a routing loop and a bunch of red lights in their NOC.  
> I'm sure they are working on it.
>
> I never understand why people post traceroute on NANOG and expect 
> things to magically get fixed.   Did you call Cogent?
>
> On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:55 PM, David Coulson wrote:
>
> > About 20mins ago my connection to Cogent in Cleveland just went 
> > totally nuts. I can't even get to www.cogentco.com over their circuit:
> >
> >                                                    
> > Packets               Pings
> > Host                                             Loss%   Snt   Last   
> > Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
> > 1. v129.l3sw1.n2net.net                           0.0%     1    1.1   
> > 1.1   1.1   1.1   0.0
> > 2. v401.core1.n2net.net                           0.0%     1    0.4   
> > 0.4   0.4   0.4   0.0
> > 3. fa0-2.na01.b002352-3.cle01.atlas.cogentco.com  0.0%     1    1.5   
> > 1.5   1.5   1.5   0.0
> > 4. g1-0-3501.core01.cle01.atlas.cogentco.com      0.0%     1    1.6   
> > 1.6   1.6   1.6   0.0
> > 5. p6-0.core01.buf02.atlas.cogentco.com           0.0%     1    5.5   
> > 5.5   5.5   5.5   0.0
> > 6. p6-0.core01.cle01.atlas.cogentco.com           0.0%     1    6.1   
> > 6.1   6.1   6.1   0.0
> > 7. p6-0.core01.buf02.atlas.cogentco.com           0.0%     1   10.5  
> > 10.5  10.5  10.5   0.0
> > 8. p6-0.core01.cle01.atlas.cogentco.com           0.0%     1    9.9   
> > 9.9   9.9   9.9   0.0
> > 9. p6-0.core01.buf02.atlas.cogentco.com           0.0%     1   14.7  
> > 14.7  14.7  14.7   0.0
> > 10. p6-0.core01.cle01.atlas.cogentco.com           0.0%     1   14.7  
> > 14.7  14.7  14.7   0.0
> > 11. p6-0.core01.buf02.atlas.cogentco.com           0.0%     1   19.1  
> > 19.1  19.1  19.1   0.0
>
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