re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops

2014-10-03 Thread Nick Olsen
I've had the exact same thing happen. Recently, I removed a bunch of /24's that were member of a larger /20. We use to advertise the /24's to certain carriers for traffic engineering. I saw the exact same issue you're describing. I chocked it up to Slow BGP in their core. For instance, I

Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops

2014-10-03 Thread Brandon Ewing
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:03:15AM -0700, ryanL wrote: (who peers with cogent), and then pull the /24 some time later, that cogent holds onto the /24 and then bounces packets around in their network a bunch of times for upwards of 8-10 minutes until they finally yank it. this effectively

Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops

2014-10-03 Thread ryanL
circling back on this, i guess my case with cogent has been escalated to vp engineering, and i've had a few people reply on and off list citing the same problems. i encourage you to open up cases to help demonstrate further examples (ie: it's not just me!) thx everyone. ryan On Thu, Oct 2,

Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops

2014-10-02 Thread Paul S.
First time I'm seeing it, and I've been a Cogent client for quite a while. Have you tried getting in touch with their NOC yet? They're one of the most responsive in the industry. On 10/3/2014 午前 01:03, ryanL wrote: hi. relatively new cogent customer. is what i've stated in my subject line

Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops

2014-10-02 Thread ryanL
as stated, yep. i was on the phone with them for over three hours yesterday. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Paul S. cont...@winterei.se wrote: First time I'm seeing it, and I've been a Cogent client for quite a while. Have you tried getting in touch with their NOC yet? They're one of the

Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops

2014-10-02 Thread ryanL
i still advertise the aggregate as a backing route. one reason i might like advertising a /24 is (usually) it's a nice way to gently attract return traffic down a certain path so i can do maintenance on the other side. plenty of other ways to do this, i know (prepending, communities, etc). On

Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops

2014-10-02 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, ryanL wrote: hi. relatively new cogent customer. is what i've stated in my subject line kinda standard fare with them? i've discovered that when i advertise a /24 from inside a larger /22 to XO, (who peers with cogent), and then pull the /24 some time later, that cogent