What's with all the long aspaths?

Thu Oct 23 02:39:30 UTC 2008

Is there something silly going around?  I doubt I'm the only one noticing 
these being triggered by our generous maxas-limit setting.

Oct  9 23:01:46: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 27754 27754 27754 ...
Oct 17 11:10:40: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 43413 43413 43413 ...
Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 38230 38230 38230 ...

Anyone have theories as to what these networks are trying to accomplish?

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