circling back on this, i guess my case with cogent has been escalated to vp engineering, and i've had a few people reply on and off list citing the same problems. i encourage you to open up cases to help demonstrate further examples (ie: it's not just me!) thx everyone. ryan On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:03 AM, ryanL <ryan.landry@gmail.com> wrote:
hi. relatively new cogent customer. is what i've stated in my subject line kinda standard fare with them?
i've discovered that when i advertise a /24 from inside a larger /22 to XO, (who peers with cogent), and then pull the /24 some time later, that cogent holds onto the /24 and then bounces packets around in their network a bunch of times for upwards of 8-10 minutes until they finally yank it. this effectively blackholes traffic to my /24 for anyone that is using a path thru cogent.
example: http://ryry.foursquare.com/image/0e0K1K0t0W2M
it's been a bit of a frustrating experience talking to their noc to demonstrate it, but i'm able to duplicate it on demand. even pushing routes using their communities to offload the circuit takes forever to propagate even on their own looking-glasses.
thx
ryan