What's with all the long aspaths?
Jon Lewis
jlewis at lewis.org
Thu Oct 23 02:57:38 UTC 2008
Yeah...prepending isn't a big deal...but when someone prepends their own
AS 70+ times, I wonder WTF they're thinking.
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, James Baker wrote:
> bgp path prepend?
>
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> Subject: What's with all the long aspaths?
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> 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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