Internet connectivity problems to certain sites/services?

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/05/2247207&tid=95&tid=187&tid=4

This apears to be an issue where a greedy company (Level3) who runs one of the major Internet backbones decided to not only shut down a major peer, but entirely filter out all the traffic from them (Cogent).

I really hope you guys are multi-homed through multiple Tier 1's or else I'm certain some of your subscribers will not even be able to contact you to complain.

Message Edited by KernelPanic on 10-06-2005 04:05 PM

Yup, little companies like RoadRunner, Verizon, etc can't access certain sites due to this issue. This is a biggie and will potentially set a prescedence for government regulation and/or more outages like this in the future. The outcome of this 1 snafu could literally change the way the Internet, routing and bandwidth sales/services work.

Ok, well I've done some reading on this topic. The following ISP's appear to be affected:

RoadRunner
Earthlink (fixed)

The following are not affected:

SBC
Adelphia

The following need confirmation but may be affected:

AOL
Verizon

A big deal is Photobucket and the Drudge Report which are hosted through Cogent only. Feel free to list your ISP here.

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mercurius420 wrote:
Please tell me I can send a nasty letter to someone complaining about this...

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Yes if you were affected then contact your ISP and let them know they're stupid for not multi-homing (i.e. having more than one tier 1 connection). There were rumors of RR offering a free month of service if you asked, but I haven't confirmed that myself. Worth a shot I guess. Hey I know I'm not paying for 70% of the Internet, I want the whole she-bang!