What's with all the long aspaths?

Thu Oct 23 03:09:37 UTC 2008

Jon Lewis wrote:
> Yeah...prepending isn't a big deal...but when someone prepends their own 
> AS 70+ times, I wonder WTF they're thinking.
>

I'm sure they get the attention of NOCs around the world as messages 
like this show up on consoles

Oct 22 04:34:05 MDT: %BGP-6-BIGCHUNK: Big chunk pool request (306) for 
aspath. Replenishing with malloc

This time I couldn't be bothered to dig too deeply into who was the cause.