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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Arbitrary de-peering
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/03/you_cant_get_there_from_here_1.shtml http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/03/he_said_she_said_cogent_vs_tel.shtml http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/03/telia_and_cogent_kiss_and_make_1.shtml On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM, William Waites <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 08-07-28 à 17:12, [email protected] a écrit : > > ----Example: A York University professor was sitting at his desk at work >> in >> March 2008 trying to reach an internet website located somewhere in >> Europe. >> [...] York's bandwidth supplier is Cogent which had severed a peering >> relationship >> with a bandwidth provider in Europe called Telia [...] which was the >> bandwidth >> network provider for the website that the Professor was trying to reach. >> [...] >> Cogent did not proactively inform the University of the issue and the loss >> of >> connectivity. Unreachability due to arbitrariness in network peering is >> unacceptable. >> > > There must be more to this story. If Cogent de-peered from Telia the > traffic would > normally just have taken another path. Either there was a configuration > error of some > sort or else some sort of proactive black-holing on one side or the other. > As the > latter would be surprising and very heavy handed, I would tend to suspect > the former. > > Peering relationships are made and severed all the time with no particular > ill-effects, > unless you can point to examples of outright malice (i.e. of the > black-holing kind) I > don't think there is much basis for any public policy decisions in this > example. > > Unreachability due to configuation error is of course relatively common; > perhaps I am > wrong, but I don't think the CRTC would really have much to say about that. > > Cheers, > -w >
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