Sprint / Cogent

Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications
difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include
a potential depeering.

... JG

Not a theory.

Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications
difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include
a potential depeering.

I am seeing issues Cogent -> Sprint at Tyco Road, Tysons Corner VA.

arin_whois 206.159.101.241
Sprint SPRINT-W (NET-206-159-0-0-1)
                                   206.159.0.0 - 206.159.255.255
Sprint com FON-34665525765801 (NET-206-159-101-0-1)
                                   206.159.101.0 - 206.159.101.255

ping 206.159.101.241
PING 206.159.101.241 (206.159.101.241) from 63.105.122.7 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From 63.105.122.1: Destination Host Unreachable

show ip bgp 206.159.101.241
% Network not in table

It was there as recently as Noon EDT :

grep 206.159.101.0 bgp.full*
bgp.full.Oct_30_00:07:00_EST_2008:*> 206.159.101.0 38.101.161.116 62050 0 174 1239 6157 i
bgp.full.Oct_30_06:07:00_EST_2008:*> 206.159.101.0 38.101.161.116 62050 0 174 1239 6157 i
bgp.full.Oct_30_12:07:00_EST_2008:*> 206.159.101.0 38.101.161.116 62050 0 174 1239 6157 i

Regards
Marshall

Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications
difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include
a potential depeering.

I am seeing issues Cogent -> Sprint at Tyco Road, Tysons Corner VA.
..........
....... ..

show ip bgp 206.159.101.241
% Network not in table

It was there as recently as Noon EDT :

grep 206.159.101.0 bgp.full*
bgp.full.Oct_30_00:07:00_EST_2008:*> 206.159.101.0 38.101.161.116 62050 0 174 1239 6157 i
bgp.full.Oct_30_06:07:00_EST_2008:*> 206.159.101.0 38.101.161.116 62050 0 174 1239 6157 i
bgp.full.Oct_30_12:07:00_EST_2008:*> 206.159.101.0 38.101.161.116 62050 0 174 1239 6157 i

All my traffic to Sprint is not being trasported over Cogent backbone here in Central Europe.

        Regards
            Michal

Indeed. It appears, using Sprint's looking glass, that they're completely
partitioned from Cogent. YMMV.

-brandon

I wonder if judicious use of 6to4 and Teredo would allow an IPv6 (single homed) user to access now missing parts of the Internet. Me thinks, yes.

Deepak

Joe Greco wrote:

So would some "CGN" (Carrier Grade Nat anyone) too.

  Last I knew Cogent wasn't doing any IPv6.. has that changed?

  - Jared

Not that I know of. We tried to get IPv6 transit from Cogent several months
ago (we already have IPv4 transit), and were told it's not available yet.

-brandon

Brandon Galbraith wrote:

Not that I know of. We tried to get IPv6 transit from Cogent several months
ago (we already have IPv4 transit), and were told it's not available yet.

What a shame. It's extremely miserable, but Sprint has a 6to4 at least. No clue what they have beyond that. It's been a big motivator for us peering native IPv6 so we can push our customers away from that death trap. Yeah, we can tunnel, but most tunnel peers seem low band.

Jack

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/sprint-nextel-severs-its-internet-connection-to-cogent-communications,603138.shtml

Brandon Galbraith wrote:

The most interesting part of the press release to me is:

In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides service,
Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is unable to
connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second connection to the
Internet for as long as Sprint continues to keep this partitioning of the
Internet in place. Unfortunately, there is no way that Cogent can do the same
for the wireless customers of Sprint-Nextel.

-brandon

The most interesting part of the press release to me is:

In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides service,
Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is unable to
connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second connection to
the Internet for as long as Sprint continues to keep this partitioning of
the Internet in place. Unfortunately, there is no way that Cogent can do
the same for the wireless customers of Sprint-Nextel.

This wasn't the first time Cogent offered something similar. They did the
same thing when Level3 depeered them.

Randy

I wonder if judicious use of 6to4 and Teredo would allow an IPv6 (single

homed) user to access now missing parts of the Internet. Me thinks, yes.

       So would some "CGN" (Carrier Grade Nat anyone) too.

       Last I knew Cogent wasn't doing any IPv6.. has that changed?

       - Jared

Not that I know of. We tried to get IPv6 transit from Cogent several months
ago (we already have IPv4 transit), and were told it's not available yet.

Did they provide you with a roadmap ? :slight_smile:

./Carlos