Dodgy AS327933 ...?

Malte Tashiro malte at iij.ad.jp
Sat Aug 12 03:50:46 UTC 2023


Looking at this I also saw that for a short time some prefixes belonging to AS37451 were announced by AS2454388738 (see [0] and [1]).
Anybody have a smart idea which command could have caused this?

[0] https://stat.ripe.net/ui2013/widget/bgp-update-activity#w.starttime=2023-08-10T23%3A00%3A00&w.endtime=2023-08-11T23%3A00%3A00&w.resource=AS2454388738
[1] https://stat.ripe.net/ui2013/widget/announced-prefixes#w.resource=AS2454388738&w.min_peers_seeing=3

Malte


On 8/11/23 18:26, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 
> If your asn is 327933, then:
> 
> add chain=foo prefix=192.0.2.0/24 action=accept set-bgp-prepend=2
> 
> ... will produce: "327933 327933", and:
> 
> add chain=foo prefix=192.0.2.0/24 action=accept set-bgp-prepend-path=2
> 
> ... will produce: "327933 2".
> 
> Routeros does command completion on the CLI, so this is finger-slip territory, and the two commands are visually similarly enough to each other that it would be easy not to notice.
> 
> Nick
> 
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