[Techtalk] is the Internet broken?

[RobertWichert]

A traceroute will show you where the gaps are, I think.

Robert Wichert



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Carla Schroder wrote:

>On Friday 21 March 2008 11:28:07 am Angela Kahealani wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2008-03-21 07:43:51 Wim De Smet wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>I'm curious as to why you wouldn't be able to see anything? Shouldn't
>>>stuff just work via a different route?
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>>>greets,
>>>Wim
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>>That's the point... Cogent has blocked even alternate routes for
>>traffic from Telia.
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>So they've gone from peering to pee-ring.  And they say FOSS people are 
>immature jerks :)
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>Carla
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