Re: 2023 State of Network Automation Survey

2023-02-28 Thread Lou D
Chris , Competed the survey , I think I understand why some might feel issues with the financial questions but it’s a fair point to understand on how there can be avenues to maximize savings for one services if you can get automation rolled in with it . All the best with the survey On Tue, Feb 28

Re: End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?

2022-09-07 Thread Lou D
My comment while was intended to a joke , sadly my concern is that Sprint has been a great provider . - Responsive staff - Functional Looking Glass Server - Clear BGP Community documentation Cogent in my experiences from different employers is that Cogent has been inconsistent . It’s a large glo

Re: End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?

2022-09-07 Thread Lou D
Is there a hotline for those of us who have Cogent and Sprint….. sighs On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 6:17 PM Adam Thompson wrote: > Well, yes, that goes hand-in-hand with "...expects hefty charge". > To me, this just says T-Mobile wants out of the POTS business at almost > any cost. > All those poor pe

Re: cogent - Sales practices

2022-08-06 Thread Lou D
Funny because I’ve been avoiding calls with my new rep for weeks and was partially admiring the commitment to make contact with me . Hehe On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 4:08 PM Eric Kuhnke wrote: > I have a morbid curiosity about what the CRM database looks like inside > Cogent, for the stale/cold leads

Issues with AS 1239

2022-07-22 Thread Lou D
Anyone else seeing sub optimal route issues with AS 1239? Anyone from there contact me off list please ?

Re: Bgpmon alternative

2022-06-15 Thread Lou D
BGPAlerter is great and integrates with everything I need (Slack , Email , etc) . I also think https://bgpartemis.org/ is a great tool I wanted to look also . On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 5:10 PM Peter Potvin via NANOG wrote: > I second this recommendation, I use BGPalerter for all of my BGP > announ

Re: Asia Apac networks

2022-03-10 Thread Lou D
You need to understand the source of the traffic and those network polices , all the pre-pending will do nothing if it avoids cogent . You might have to look to advertising more or less specific prefixes to get the desired result I don’t think this is Asia specific issue On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 5:33

Re: Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link

2022-03-05 Thread Lou D
Somewhere a Teleco Senior Executive is demanding updates every 8 minutes from an operations team and wondering what the hell was on that 120 count fiber in downtown Baltimore On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 7:42 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 3/5/22 4:35 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > Since 2008, the W

Re: BGP hujack by AS25478?

2021-11-09 Thread Lou D
I Saw the same event reported on a few prefixes . I am wondering if the routes were withdrawn or mitigated by upstreams . On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 2:03 AM Hank Nussbacher wrote: > Based on my own observation as well as via bgpstream there was a massive > BGP hijack attempt last night by IHOME-AS

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

2021-10-05 Thread Lou D
Facebook stopped announcing the vast majority of their IP space to the DFZ during this. This is where I would like to learn more about the outage. Direct Peering FB connections saw a drop in a networks (about a dozen) and one the networks covered their C and D Nameservers but the block for A and B