Cogent blackholing AlphaRed
 

I have numerous reports of the BGP route changes due to this.

Please spread the word - I don't want to see people lose their businesses over this. This isn't just about 'come to Choopa' - it's about 'LEAVE ALPHARED'.

Worried,

Costa

I can still access them via level3

I have a server unreachable and http://alphared.com/ seems down too.

Shit's fucked.

so i guess the ccbill deal fell through.

I thought that ccbill just bought them out

hmmm so their providers are cutting them off!!!

drama whores please report in! STAT!!! CODE RED!!!

Outbound Cogent (as reported from multiple AR clients) is nonexistent. It's all going out Level3 now.

I stopped trying to load alphared.com after 30 seconds. It was coming up, but oh so slow...

Will this be a popcorn thread... Pulling up a chair.

alphared.com loads for me just fine..

if i were a little host, i would be very careful about saying things in public now that they have been acquired.. :2 cents:

You're an idiot.....:2 cents:

they have NOT been acquired - assets were (so much debt and litigation pending).

I assume they will be taken apart and will keep only the $$ making customers.

This is what I was told as well.:2 cents:



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Yeah, Choopa is definitly the smallest host on the block

I can access both.

i did alot of blackholing in brazil for what that's worth

Indeed they are correct. the Sky IS falling.

if people need assistance, we're here to help.

you're an idiot... :2 cents:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Down for me in Chicago.

finally got through to AR site after numerous attempts. slow as hell

At this rate of massive Level3 congestion, I suspect Leve3 will follow Cogent's lead pretty soon. I sure hope not, but damn - this is a huge mess...:(

same here.

sounds crazy
http://www.hostchecker.info/image9.jpg

http://www.hostchecker.info/image7.jpg

I just wanna give some major props to Andy over at choopa. We had one last server still at AR. That server got fucked today over this cogent issue. Andy has already been able to get us set up and fixed for now so we don't have too much business affected over this AR crap. Losing this particular server could have been potentially quite damaging to our business...so having Andy step up like he did really saved our asses.

countdown has begun.....

we need a government bailout plan!!!!!!!!!!

Abbie,

I'm really glad you got taken care of. Andy is a champ!

Tracing the route to alphared.com (69.80.224.2)

1 gi10-0.224.core01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.250.4.5) 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec
2 te4-2.ccr02.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.34) 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec
3 te4-1.ccr02.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.69) 12 msec 12 msec 12 msec
4 te3-4.mpd01.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.102) 12 msec 68 msec 16 msec
5 te-3-3.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.110.137) 12 msec 16 msec 12 msec
6 vlan79.csw2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.126) 24 msec 16 msec 16 msec
7 ae-73-73.ebr3.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.134.229) 24 msec 16 msec 16 msec
8 ae-2.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.132.10) 28 msec 36 msec 20 msec
9 ae-73-73.csw2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.38) 32 msec 28 msec 36 msec
10 ae-92-92.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.29) 36 msec
ae-62-62.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.17) 36 msec
ae-82-82.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.25) 36 msec
11 ae-3.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.132.78) 56 msec 52 msec 52 msec
12 ae-63-63.csw1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.136.154) 56 msec
ae-93-93.csw4.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.136.166) 56 msec
ae-63-63.csw1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.136.154) 52 msec
13 ae-4-99.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.19.203) 48 msec
ae-2-79.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.19.75) 48 msec
ae-4-99.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.19.203) 48 msec
14 Alphared.edge3.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.71.220.2) 60 msec * 56 msec
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * *
alphared.com (69.80.224.2) 56 msec

Up and down from here...

Countdown.....

http://avn.com/internet/articles/32761.html

done! server will go offline within hours.

I can't access either ...

On topic:

In the original CCbill thread, it was clearly stated that they were buying the assets, not the company :2 cents:

wow... i was really hoping this would work out for ar customers sake...

sucks to be put in that position...

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=860780

http://avn.com/internet/articles/32761.html

oh well.

Got the AlphaRed BLUES? Hit me up (icq in sig) and we'll get you on some decent hardware on a network that is UP :)

Boooooooooooom

Wow theres gonna be a whole lot of cheapos out of biz real soon.:helpme

Good Luck James.

bahahaha..... I'm sure he's doing fine in what ever country he fled to.

to tell you the truth, im somewhat relieved, kudos to ccbill for spending a week shuffling through their books to decide it was something they wanted nothing to do with.

shame for the clients that are offline right now though

arent you a former alphared employee costa?

Yes sir, I was employed there for a year.

I would suggest all Alphared customers to keep a close eye on the situation and think about if they would want (and can afford) to take the risk of waiting what happens with the (still possible) option of seeing your server going offline.

I think the fact that Alphared doesn't bring any update about the situation and the future of its hosting customers is a bad thing and unnecessary as it will make the situation only worse.

As far as I can see servers are still online as we just initiated another two transfers but I don't think this will last long, I wouldn't be surprised if everything went down for the weekend.