Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet 413
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."
Re:Asshats (Score:2, Funny)
Headline is wrong (Score:4, Funny)
Cogent runs the second largest tier-1 backbone on the planet and it is widely used by the adult industry. The headline should read:
Sprint cockpunches own customers by disconnecting them from porn.
/I run a few dozen porn servers on Cogent links
//Sprint can suck my balls
empty threats (Score:5, Funny)
I thought I was buying a DIA circuit - as in Direct Internet Access - but apparently you don't exactly do that. That's a breach of contract - that's a violation of your SLA - I want out of my contract now
Sprint's reply: "Okay *flip*. Call us when you realize that getting a T1/T3 takes weeks. By the way, we charge a $1000 installation fee."
Re:So what is Sprint providing its customers? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Neutrality (Score:2, Funny)
In the spirit of Dune's "The Spice must flow!", It should be a firm rule that "The packets must route". Meaning that deliberately preventing packets from reaching their destination (excluding reasonable filtering policies) by a party other than the sender or recipient, or somebody acting on their behalf, is the worst possible Internet crime, and is in no way acceptable.
Re:Guess what? (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno... darth vader became pretty powerful by *not* taking responsibility for his actions.
While you still have connectivity (Score:5, Funny)
OK everyone, while you still have connectivity login to your boxes and do your OS's/distribution's equivalent of "apt-get install UUCP"
Re:Headline is wrong (Score:4, Funny)
Sprint can suck my balls
They can't reach them because you're on a Cogent link.
Re:So what is Sprint providing its customers? (Score:5, Funny)
Can you write it again as a car analogy? I'm lost here.
Re:Cogent depeering (Score:3, Funny)
Let's build one phrase by phrase ... I'll start: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Guess what? (Score:5, Funny)
"is that the mathematician's love for bizarre, pedantic arguments stays in the ivory towers."
You've obviously never had a mathematician over for dinner.
Re:Cogent (Score:5, Funny)
Schaeffer, 52, sees that as both obsolete and silly, like an electric company trying to bill its customers more for kilowatts used gets broken down into ones and zeros, all networks serve only one purpose: moving those bits from one place to another.
Re:Cogent (Score:3, Funny)
I think they're trying to say that he enjoys hunting deer.
Re:Let's build one phrase by phrase ... I'll start (Score:3, Funny)
NO NO NO!
The tubes are in the radios. Oh wait, they stopped putting tubes in car radios. OK, the tubes are in the tires. Oh wait, they stopped putting tubes in tires, too. Oh hell, GET OFF MY LAWN!
Invasion! (Score:3, Funny)
Disruption in communication can mean only one thing... Invasion
Re:Yup (ATT, too) (Score:3, Funny)
My company's internet has been down all day, with only half the websites working. I wonder if the Sprint/Cogent tiff has anything to do with that?
And yet you still have bandwidth to get to slashdot.