ISP Dispute Causing Connectivity Issues for Customers 192
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A peering dispute between Telia and Cogent is causing routing and connectivity problems for many internet users. Cogent shut down their connections to Telia over what they described as a 'contract dispute' over the size and location of their peering points. Telia attempted to route around the problem, but Cogent blocked that, too. This has caused a lot of trouble for sites which are not multi-homed. Groklaw, for example, is on a Cogent network (MCNC.demarc.cogentco.com), so any Europeans connecting via Telia can't get through."
That's what happens... (Score:4, Informative)
First post btw
Again? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:YEAH! (Score:1, Informative)
Sorry, I was the First Poster
HA HA HA lol
Re:How much for only half an Internet? (Score:5, Informative)
Death throws? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Route around? (Score:5, Informative)
The current issue involves "peering arrangements/agreements." Do a Google search if you want an in depth explination of what exactly a peering arrangement is all about. The short version is that ISPs agree to pass each others traffic across their networks. That's the way the internet works. Every ISP can't have a router in every place that a router needs to be placed. So they "share" each routes with each other.
Re:Route around? (Score:2, Informative)
Telia should be able to send traffic via their other link(s) which should also have peering at some point to Cogent. The other problem that I suspect the problem is that Cogent is dropping Telia traffic coming in from Cogent's other peers. Cogent shouldn't do this, it breaks the internet. If Cogent is announcing prefixes to other peers, they need to receive all non-abusive traffic from those other peers, not null-route it.
In short, even if I won't talk to you directly, if we have a mutual friend, we can route messages through that friend. However, it sounds like Cogent is just ignoring messages from Telia to spite them. They're actually doing both Telia and Cogent's customer's a disservice.
I'm not just guessing at this, I do BGP work regularly for 2 smaller ILECs and customers that are multi-homed with 2-4 peers each.
Re:How much for only half an Internet? (Score:3, Informative)
In fact, since they're both just contracts, either one can be good for the customer, or bad for the customer. The only innate differences are three words at the top of the page, which is about as insignificant a distinction as I can think of.
Works fine... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yep (Score:4, Informative)
Ever since the backbones went private though, all bets are off. You are entirely correct as of the early 90s. As we all know, it's "my network, my rules." Hence this peering spat, and the ones before, and the ones to come.
Larry
Re:How to get by these silly commercial blockades (Score:3, Informative)