On 1/21/2016 10:40 AM, Daniel Corbe wrote:
On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Matthew D. Hardeman <mharde...@ipifony.com> wrote:
Since Cogent is clearly the bad actor here (the burden being Cogent's to prove
otherwise because HE is publicly on record as saying that they’d love to peer
with Cogent), I’m giving serious consideration to dropping Cogent come renewal
time and utilizing NTT or Zayo instead.
While that would not immediately solve the problem that if the NTT or Zayo link
went down, single-homed Cogent customers would loose access to me via IPv6, I’m
actually ok with that. It at least lets ensures that when there is a problem,
the problem affects only single-home Cogent clients. Thus, the problem is
borne exclusively by the people who pay the bad actor who is causing this
problem. That tends to get uncomfortable for the payee (i.e. Cogent).
Take two transit providers that aren’t in the group of (HE, Cogent). Cogent is
probably banking on this being the response; figuring that they have the
financial resources to outlast HE if they’re both shedding customers.
If you really wanted to stick it to Cogent, take 3 transit providers: HE and
two of any other providers besides Cogent.
Cogent clearly aren’t going to cave to their own customers asking them to peer
with HE. Otherwise it would have happened by now.
Cogent sucks for lots of reasons and this one isn’t even in the top 5 IMHO.
Let's hear the top 5. Peering disputes are up there, but what else?
We've had them as one of our providers going on 8 years, and we can only
complain about the occasional peering disputes.
-Robert
