On 12/9/16 11:30 AM, Justin Wilson wrote:
> Are they not doing these during maintenance windows? Anytime we get a notice 
> from Cogent, Level3, Att they are always during a maintenance window at least 
> a week ahead of time.  We have yet to see any maintenance window 
> notifications from Hurricane Electric.  Maybe our circuit has never had to 
> have one in a few years. Or maybe they have so much redundancy it doesn’t 
> matter and we never see the maintenance.  
FWIW I have a few Cogent circuits, The maintenance look normalish and
are all scheduled per their normal process, I aware of at least one
cisco bug related to source mac usage they had that was annoying if not
catastrophic since it was visible on our ports.
>
> Justin Wilson
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>> On Dec 8, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Drew Weaver <drew.wea...@thenap.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Over the last several days we have had interruptions at multiple times in 
>> our service with Cogent due to them performing router code updates on 
>> multiple nodes. I know that some companies put these sorts of updates on 
>> hold during the holiday season but I was wondering if anyone has heard of 
>> any unannounced security flaws that only larger companies such as Cogent 
>> would be privy to?
>>
>> I am certain that if you have heard of these flaws you cannot post the 
>> details but a simple yes or no about the existence of such a thing is plenty 
>> for me.
>>
>> Happy Holidays
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Drew
>>
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