Sunday, November 2, 2008

Followup: The Sprint / Cogent Internet backbone traffic debacle of October 2008: A Perspective from the Trenches

[This is a followup to my original post about this here]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...... someone somewhere did the *right thing*.

The Sprint/Cogent backbone traffic link remained down since Thursday afternoon causing me to not have access to my web sites (+email +ssh login).

But I just now (3:45 PM Mountain Standard Time) have been able to connect once again. Woohoo!

The problem was solved by the link between Cogent and Sprint being re-established (see http://www.internetpulse.net/) as opposed to other possible new route workarounds being set up.

So, to whomever or whatever caused the link to be re-established, THANK YOU! I totally had not expected any action to take place during the weekend and I was working on my list of my own personal workarounds, none of which looked easy, attractive, or cheap. I definitely appreciate the work of the technical, legal, and managerial staff that pushed through the solution.

--SDP

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