The York University community should take note that as of late yesterday 
afternoon, Cogent Communications (provider of Internet transit service to 
York) and Sprint-Nextel no-longer exchange Internet traffic with each 
other.  This means that customers of these two networks will find 
customers on the 'other' respective network unreachable on the Internet 
even if their DNS names can be resolved to IP addresses.

This situation is the result of a commercial dispute between the two 
companies.  Members of the York community should expect to find some 
websites and some email destinations to remain unreachable for the 
duration of the dispute.

Cogent's press release on the matter may be found here: 
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/PRNEWS.20081030.NETH134/GIStory

Sprint's press release (if it exists) cannot be read directly from York 
since www.sprint.com is now unreachable from here.

Here is CNN's story on the matter: 
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_10_30_cogent_sprint_un_peer_may_cause_web_slowdown.html#


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