And then there is upper management over there that sucks as well at least the sales person always tends to blame them for issues... LOL
Erich Kaiser North Central Tower [email protected] Office: 630-621-4804 Cell: 630-777-9291 On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Justin Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Cogent has really started sucking on things like this since it was all > turned over to sales. Now, anytime you want to peer with their blackhole > server, bring up BGP, our modify your BGp session it’s a sales order. It > took me 4 weeks to get a BGP session turned up on an existing circuit a few > months ago. The weak link was the sales person not responding in a timely > manner. I get, with the exhaustion of IPv4, they are monetizing the /30 or > /29’s that used to be taken for granted. I think, at least in our case, > the sales person had bigger fish to chase and spending time on a BGP sales > order which they charge $50 a month for was not worth his time. I could be > wrong, but thats what it seemed. > > Justin Wilson > [email protected] > > --- > http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO > xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth > > http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman > Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric > > On Jun 22, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > It takes FOR EV ER to get any change orders with them done. > > Also, eCogent is *the worst* web based system I have used in almost 20 > years now in this business. > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Dennis Burgess <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You have to be peered with them and open a ticket and fill out their BGPQ >> to get you added to their blackhole servers. J >> >> >> >> <image001.jpg> >> >> www.linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 x103 – [email protected] >> >> >> >> *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy >> /sarcasm >> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 22, 2016 10:00 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik BGP Blackhole Community >> >> >> >> is this for a single ip? >> >> >> >> our upstream thats actually communicating said they dont support >> blackhole community, the other i assume wont either >> >> >> >> is this stating you can trigger at cogent even though not peered with >> them directly? >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Justin Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> BlackHole server >> >> The Blackhole server allows customers under a DDOS attack to send all >> traffic to the IP address under attack to null route. >> >> To request configuration on the blackhole server: Log into eCogent and >> click on BGP request. You will need the following information: >> >> 1. Order Number. >> >> 2. An IP address from your network with which we will peer. >> >> 3. A password (all blackhole server sessions are password protected). >> >> >> >> All North American and Asia Pacific Customers will peer with: >> >> IPv4: 66.28.8.2 and IPv6: 2001:550:0:1000::421c:802 >> >> >> >> All European Customers will peer with: IPv4: 130.117.20.2 and IPv6: >> 2001:550:0:1000::8275:1402 >> >> >> >> Once your session to the blackhole server has been established, any >> network you announce to it will be stopped at our borders. Please note that >> Cogent does not warrant or guarantee that use of the blackhole server will >> mitigate, or minimize any effects of a DDOS attack nor does Cogent >> guarantee that a session to the blackhole server can be established on a >> timely basis. You are limited to announcing 50 prefixes to our blackhole >> server. If you anticipate needing to announce more, relay that request to >> our Customer Support department along with the technical justification for >> an increase in the number of prefixes to be announced. >> >> >> >> >> >> Justin Wilson >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> --- >> http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO >> >> xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth >> >> http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman >> >> Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric >> >> >> >> On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Really? Mikrotik can automatically trigger a blackhole IP with Cogent? I >> have had to call Cogent to get IP's blacklisted previously. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Justin Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> San example with Cogent: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> add in-filter=cogent-blackhole-in multihop=yes name=Cogent-BlackHole >> out-filter=cogent-blackhole-out remote-address=130.117.20.1 remote-as=174 >> tcp-md5-key=<my-md5-key> ttl=default >> update-source=<interface-facing-cogent-or-ip-that-was-sent-to-Cogent> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Justin Wilson >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> --- >> http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO >> >> xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth >> >> http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman >> >> Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric >> >> >> >> On Jun 20, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Has anyone used BGP and Remote-Triggered BlackHole with Mikrotik to >> help deal with DOS attacks? Any examples of getting it too work with >> Mikrotik? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> > > >
