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Originally posted by Strife
Do a trace route
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Unfortunately a traceroute does little beyond telling you who is announcing their IP blocks.
Also, many hosts who use Cogent may not be using it for their own corporate sites.
And there are quite a few that hide cogent as much as possible, and just dump data out through the cogent link. The way hosts do this is by routing ICMP traffic out one link, and all other TCP traffic out the Cogent link. What this ends up resulting with is a perfect traceroute out through a "good" provider.
I used to have Cogent, back when the AOL mess was going on (a year ago).. it sucked then. But it's been quite good since from what I've seen.