# In which I pit the Internet!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-internet/325028>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 6, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-internet/325028 "2005-10-06T09:30:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-internet/325028/1 "2005-10-06T09:30:53Z")

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Road Runner is having trouble accessing certain sites due to an internet backbone feud. I found out I couldn’t access my baby pictures, where I used Photobucket to host the pics: [http://home.hawaii.rr.com/hubbardm/](http://home.hawaii.rr.com/hubbardm/)

I got a great answer in GQ about this.

[http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39153079,00.htm](http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39153079,00.htm)  
This site discusses the feud limiting access. And then I got this letter  
from Road Runner:

Dear Michael,

I understand that you cannot connect with a Cogent Networks customer. I  
can certainly address this issue for you.

Currently, Road Runner customers cannot connect to any web sites hosted  
on Level 3 / Cogent servers. This is due to major network restructuring  
being performed by Cogent and sites that are hosted on their network are  
not accessible at this time from the Road Runner network because of a  
routing issue. These sites should become available again when the  
restructuring is complete. Our network operations center has contacted  
Cogent and informed them of this issue. At this time, we have not been  
given an estimated time of repair.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-internet/325028/2 "2005-10-06T13:10:33Z")

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Ha, nice spinning. I guess they hoped your internet access was limited enough to prevent you from seeing pages with the real story.