128/9 cite

Thu Jun 8 02:13:10 UTC 2023

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 at 02:15, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> doug madory is asking me for a cite for the exciting 1997/8 128/9 bgp
> event.  my memory as reported to doug is
>
>     soon after the 7007 incident, an engineer in a UUNET lab, not
>     realizing they were connected to the real internet, used the hidden
>     bgp test command to generate 128/9 chopped into /24s.  took uunet
>     down, but not before it propagated.
>
> does anyone have a useful cite?
>

I definitely read a detailed research paper about that incident long ago
but can't find any link with any search keywords. But here is the NANOG
archive.

https://archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/1997-10/msg00095.html
https://archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/1997-10/msg00110.html
https://archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/1997-10/msg00108.html

Regards,

Aftab A. Siddiqui
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