I find it interesting that they say their clients didn't see it as an issue. Whenever they called and asked if I want transit my answer always was when they had v6 peering to He and Gooogle we could talk.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:56 PM Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > I now longer have a dog in this fight, but “The” peering cake was my > project (such as it was)... > > Cogent has, to the best of my knowledge, always had rather large voids in > their IPv6 connectivity. To the best of my knowledge, HE and Google are the > most significant of these voids, but I believe there are others as well. > > Some quotes I received from Cogent representatives over the years (some > may be slightly paraphrased): > > “Hurricane is too small to peer IPv6 with us… They should just buy > transit from us.” > “Why should we peer with HE? Our customers aren’t reporting it as > a problem.” > “Congested links allow us to pass the savings on to our customers.” > “We see from ARIN whois that you recently registered an ASN. Want > to buy transit from us?” (many times over several years) > (This particular violation of the ARIN Whois AUP/TOS > eventually resulted in Cogent being suspended from using the service) > > Owen > > > > On Jan 26, 2020, at 22:41 , Large Hadron Collider < > large.hadron.colli...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > Peering cake? Carbohydrates always entice me to peer... :-) > > > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:16:12 -0600 > > "Aaron Gould" <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: > > > >> I’m pretty sure cogent has had issues providing full internet > connectivity via ipv6 to google and perhaps he (hurricane electric), > perhaps others as well, for quite some time now. > >> > >> > >> > >> -Aaron > >> > >> > >> > >> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of James Breeden > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:04 PM > >> To: Rich Kulawiec; North American Network Operators' Group > >> Subject: RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois > >> > >> > >> > >> Hmm. Wonder if this can be used to cancel some cogent services... I > mean, they technically aren't providing access to the full internet now. > 🤷♂️🤔 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable > smartphone > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -------- Original message -------- > >> > >> From: Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> > >> > >> Date: 1/7/20 7:02 PM (GMT-06:00) > >> > >> To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org> > >> > >> Subject: Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:54:22PM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: > >>> That said, if there's a stern warning about Cogent abusing the system, > >>> maybe their customers finding out is a good thing for the overall > >>> community. ;-) > >> > >> And that is what I would suggest: reply to all queries with a notice > >> that explains what is happening, why it's happening, and provides > >> contact information for Cogent executives: preferably their *personal* > >> email addresses and phone numbers. > >> > >> ---rsk > >> > > > > > > -- > > Large Hadron Collider <large.hadron.colli...@gmx.com> > >