Inaccessible Stardock Sites
Thursday, October 6, 2005 by NixonMcJinx | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
In regards the connectivity issues with Stardock Central, Stardock.Com, Wincustomize.Com and other sites which Stardock hosts/owns.
At this time, Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communications are at odds. As a result, any net traffic exclusively through Level 3 connections to the Cogent network is not making it to its destination.
We'll see over the coming little bit whether they come to an agreement or other peering relationships are established to bypass to blockage.
The problem is neither on your end or our end. We are unfortunately stuck in the middle.
-- Nick [OrbitJuice]
[Stardock Technical Support]
At this time, Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communications are at odds. As a result, any net traffic exclusively through Level 3 connections to the Cogent network is not making it to its destination.
We'll see over the coming little bit whether they come to an agreement or other peering relationships are established to bypass to blockage.
The problem is neither on your end or our end. We are unfortunately stuck in the middle.
-- Nick [OrbitJuice]
[Stardock Technical Support]
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DigitalDanes
Reply #22 Monday, October 17, 2005 6:07 AM
Reply #22 Monday, October 17, 2005 6:07 AM
UPDATE:
“We don’t like to think of the Internet as fragile. It relies on Internet service providers and telecommunications carriers to pass traffic from one network to another. Without those relationships, the Net can fall apart.
That became evident Oct. 5 when Level 3 Communications Inc., an ISP that calls itself “the network partner you can rely on,” got into an escalating financial feud with fellow ISP Cogent Communications Inc. and cut the connections between the two networks. For two days, some of both companies’ customers–businesses and consumers–were blocked from up to 45 million Web sites and an uncountable number of E-mail addresses.”
read more: http://tinyurl.com/87s9a
“We don’t like to think of the Internet as fragile. It relies on Internet service providers and telecommunications carriers to pass traffic from one network to another. Without those relationships, the Net can fall apart.
That became evident Oct. 5 when Level 3 Communications Inc., an ISP that calls itself “the network partner you can rely on,” got into an escalating financial feud with fellow ISP Cogent Communications Inc. and cut the connections between the two networks. For two days, some of both companies’ customers–businesses and consumers–were blocked from up to 45 million Web sites and an uncountable number of E-mail addresses.”
read more: http://tinyurl.com/87s9a
Holosynthetic
Reply #23 Monday, October 17, 2005 12:35 PM
Reply #23 Monday, October 17, 2005 12:35 PM
I can see a lot of people aren't really worried about this for now, but from my standpoint (being a roadrunner customer on level 3) I wasn't able to access this site for about 2 days because of this past incident. This I think could be a problem for the subscription drive WinCustomize is having because I am not currently a subscription holder and when I heard about helping the site out I was going to contribute until the news of connections being lost again in november which for me would render a subscription useless because I couldn't view the website any longer.
Perhaps I'm going a bit far by jumping to that conclusion, and most likely i'll have to see what happens come Nov. 9th, but until then I'm sure I'm not alone in holding off on purchasing a subscription in fear I'll never be able to take advantage of it.
a worried user..but i'm very casual about it
Perhaps I'm going a bit far by jumping to that conclusion, and most likely i'll have to see what happens come Nov. 9th, but until then I'm sure I'm not alone in holding off on purchasing a subscription in fear I'll never be able to take advantage of it.
a worried user..but i'm very casual about it
tjesterb
Reply #26 Friday, October 28, 2005 9:14 PM
Reply #26 Friday, October 28, 2005 9:14 PM
In a news release today, Level3 and Cogent announced that they have negotiated a new peering arrangement.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-28-2005/0004199017&EDATE=
The temporary arrangement in place now was set to end on Nov. 9th.
So all of us who connect by a Level3 ISP will not have to worry about our connection to Wincustomize and other sites whose ISP is Cogent.
....and this thread should finally be able to fade into obscurity.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-28-2005/0004199017&EDATE=
The temporary arrangement in place now was set to end on Nov. 9th.
So all of us who connect by a Level3 ISP will not have to worry about our connection to Wincustomize and other sites whose ISP is Cogent.
....and this thread should finally be able to fade into obscurity.
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Reply #21 Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:00 PM