On Mon, 6 May 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
I think they're on dangerous ground, whether or not their contract says the IPs should be returned if they not only stop routing them but then start contacting third parties that they have no relationship with and ask them to stop routing them with the end result being that your business cannot function then I'd say this looks more malicious than pure business and I'd suggest to them a courtroom might view it that way too.
This whole thing sounds fishy. He never passed any traffic to cogent, but he was using their IPs. Why wasn't he using Peer1's IPs? Cogent tried to get them shut down on a sunday? Is there a serious BOFH in Cogent's network monitoring group? I doubt the billing department would be open sunday afternoon to order the disconnect, much less know to suggest contacting Peer1 to ask them to stop routing the space. It sounds like there's an awful lot missing from the story. This is why using provider IP space sucks...but you have to plan accordingly. If you're in dispute and plan to terminate service, start renumbering. I've been there and done that. I've also been on the other end and let a customer have several months to renumber, but that was a special case and they left on relatively good terms. A customer who left without paying their bill would likely not be treated so well. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________