[root@csmdv ~]# traceroute 208.70.27.35
traceroute to 208.70.27.35 (208.70.27.35), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets
1 10.10.1.254 (10.10.1.254) 0.304 ms 0.157 ms 0.143 ms
2 ai-core (38.116.133.1) 0.548 ms 0.451 ms 0.424 ms
3 f0-2.na01.b009854-0.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.112.6.145) 0.944
ms 1.346 ms 0.692 ms
4 g0-3.core01.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.250.10.217) 0.929 ms
0.813 ms 1.131 ms
5 t3-1.mpd01.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.30) 1.156 ms 0.770
ms 1.295 ms
6 t7-2.mpd02.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.34) 24.828 ms 24.632
ms 24.537 ms
7 t3-4.ccr01.sfo05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.38) 25.055 ms
24.444 ms 24.387 ms
8 207.241.239.146 (207.241.239.146) 24.749 ms 24.791 ms 24.385 ms
9 ia700743.eg.archive.org (208.70.27.35) 25.234 ms 25.478 ms 25.202 ms
We’re seeing very poor performance on Cogent in Chicago to major sites such as CNN and Salon. Traceroutes indicate packets dropping inside Cogent’s network and at their handoff to at atdn.net. Opened a ticket with Cogent around 10am Central, haven’t heard from anybody since.
Not necessarily related to your problem, but maybe another data point.
Maybe they depeered themselves. They seem to be on a roll!
It's quite ironic and they (Cogent) are quite contradicting themselves.
When their CEO, Dave Schaffer comes out to media and bashes Level3, France
Telecom, AOL, etc (the list goes on), citing "Cogent is being unfairly
treated", each and every time Cogent gets depeered, you would think Cogent
would be the last network to be the one pulling jack moves.
Now it seems Cogent is the one that's unfairly treating their peers, the
table has been turned around.
Time to buy some ATDN transit just to reach Cogent, eh? I'm sure they'll get
a kick out of this one
It's quite ironic and they (Cogent) are quite contradicting themselves.
When their CEO, Dave Schaffer comes out to media and bashes Level3, France
Telecom, AOL, etc (the list goes on), citing "Cogent is being unfairly
treated", each and every time Cogent gets depeered, you would think Cogent
would be the last network to be the one pulling jack moves.
what we see in others is oft a reflection of our own thoughts