Some are suggesting that the disconnect by Cogent is financially motivated.

However, it could also be that given the quick rise in cyber warfare that they do not want to be caught in the crossfire and carrying and dealing with the loads of DDOS and pure hacking attempts going in both directions.

The burden of dealing with this as well as payment issues and maybe for purely ethical issues of dealing with a proven lying dictatorship may have been the full motivation.

Nicole

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:41 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2022, at 13:14 , Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
>
> On 3/4/22 3:52 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>> I would argue they don't have much of a choice:
>>
>> "The economic sanctions put in place as a result of the invasion and the
>> increasingly uncertain security situation make it impossible for Cogent to
>> continue to provide you with service."
>
> But Tier 1's don't pay for peering.

Rostelecom isn’t a tier one.

Owen

Nicole Harrington

Operations & Engineering Manager - UNIX Systems Mistress