This was taken off of their status page, my peer to them in NYC just bounced.
 
Cogent Network Status/DNS Server Status Description:
Welcome to Cogent Communications’ Network Status Message. Today is Thursday April 27th 2006 10am EST.
At this time, Cogent is experiencing latency and routing issues on the Cogent backbone. The NOC is currently investigating. The Estimated Time to Repair is unknown at this time. Please reference HD412738.
http://status.cogentco.com/
 
Regards,
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Damian Lennon
Frontline Communications
v. 888.FRONTLINE (888.376.6854/402)
f. 1.845.947.7399
dlennon@frontline.net
http://www.frontline.net/
http://www.frontlinelite.com/
http://www.frontlinebackup.net/
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