[c-nsp] BGP sessions won't establish.

[Roy]

All is well. 

Back a few decades ago in my mainframe days, a crash was called an abend 
(short for Abnormal Ending).  The type of error was a hex code (0x0C1 
was an operation exception).  We came up with the abend code of 0xooc 
standing for "out of control" for preventable human error.

It took the ISP who several of you correctly guess as Cogent, five days 
to find their bad ACL.  It certainly fits my definition of OOC.

We are now awaiting our /29 from them.  The paperwork requesting it was 
turned in a week ago but the salesperson sat on it.  It finally got to 
the right people and (of course) they take a few days to process the 
request.  No speeding them up. 

While everyone I talked to at Cogent was nice and tried to be helpful, 
their procedures leave a lot to be desired

Thanks again to everyone who chimed in with their ideas.

Roy