Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
 ·Embarq
 ·ViaTalk
 ·Comcast
| reply to Zeb
Re: hmmm
I think you misunderstand, it was a dispute between Level 3 and the other backbone provider (I'll call them cogent because I am not sure if that's their name.)
RR and other ISPs had peering agreements with Level 3 I believe.
Cogent had a peering agreement with Level 3.
Traffic was disproportional, Level 3 demanded cogent to pay.
Cogent kind-of ignored that...
Level 3 in turn told their routers to tell ISP's customers that there were no routes to cogent's customers (instead of the correct route which would be to specify an alternate route to the cogent customers).
RR and other ISP's customers could not access anything on the cogent backbone because Level 3 blocked them. This blocked many many legit websites, and was no fault of said websites webmasters nor the ISPs.
If any of this is wrong feel free to correct me, that's just what I understand of the issue.
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