Comment Re:Cogent isn't without fault here (Score 4, Informative) 112
Nope. Routing over one network to get to another is called *transit*. Cogent refused to pay for transit to get to L3. So they still had plenty of peering arangements with other networks, but none of those peering arangements allowed Cogent to reach L3. (And the same could be said in reverse.)
