[outages] Cogent outage ???

[Ryan Rawdon]

On Dec 6, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Matthew Huff wrote:

> About 10 minutes ago we stopped being able to pass traffic through cogent. I de-peered us from Cogent, and everything appears
> better. When I call cogent, all I get is a busy signal (must be a major outage). Anyone else seeing anything?
> 

I saw packet loss to a destination in Troy, NY which has Cogent as one of its upstreams as well (and it was the Cogent path which I saw packet loss/disruption on).  This was observed from a non-Cogent multihomed network in Reston, VA.  Started at at 11:54 Eastern and ended about 20 minutes later.