[Techtalk] is the Internet broken?

[Angela Kahealani]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 07:43:51 Wim De Smet wrote:
> >  Could be the Cogent - Telia depeering.  If you're singlehomed to
> > either of those networks (or your provider, or your provider's
> > provider, is) then you can't see anything on the other side of that
> > wall.  If you are (or your upstream is) multihomed and can see both
> > sides, then the problem wouldn't manifest itself.
>
> I'm curious as to why you wouldn't be able to see anything? Shouldn't
> stuff just work via a different route?
>
> greets,
> Wim

That's the point... Cogent has blocked even alternate routes for
traffic from Telia.

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