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[Cohiba]

It appears that there is some sort of problem going on between the ISP's Cogent and Level 3 which started today. Cogent is our provider for commodity Internet traffic. There may be problems connecting to folding.stanford.edu. There isn't much we can do about this right now, although the Stanford University IT is looking into their options.


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Cogent Network Status/DNS Server Status Description:
Date: 10/05/2005

Level 3 has partitioned its part of the Internet from Cogent's part of the Internet by denying Level 3's customers access to Cogent's customers and denying Cogent's customers access to Level 3 customers. Level 3 terminated its peering with Cogent without cause (as permitted under its peering agreement with Cogent) even though both Cogent and Level 3 remained in full compliance with the previously existing interconnection agreement.

Many Level 3 customers can still exchange traffic with Cogent customers because the Level 3 customer is multi- homed, i.e. it also has a connection to Cogent or to one of the many other networks with which Cogent has a peering relationship. As described below Cogent is offering a solution to Level 3 customers that are not multi-homed.

Cogent will offer any Level 3 customer, who is single homed to the Level 3 network as of October 5, 2005, one year of full Internet transit free of charge at the same bandwidth currently being supplied by Level 3.
Cogent will provide this connectivity in over 1,000 locations throughout North America and Europe.

Cogent is committed to an open Internet. The existing interconnection facilities between Level 3 and Cogent remain intact. Cogent hopes that Level 3 will reactivate these connections, restoring a full level of service to their customers.

For more information on Cogent's offer of free Internet transit, please
call:
NORTH AMERICA: 1-877-875-4432
EUROPE: +33 (0)1 49 03 19 30


The same currently applies to seti, so if your on RR or another ISP going through Level 3 your F@%ked, seiti has proxy work arounds, for the boinc clients. see here for info.

http://www.iantighe.com/boincers.htm
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[jonnyv]

This also affects this server as we're on Cogent's network. I don't know how many of our users are on Level3's network, but if you get any messages from people complaining that they can't get to the forum, let them know what's happening.
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