leaking of routes by AS3549

Tue Aug 4 20:28:29 UTC 1998

  I erred again in the time zone correlation below.

  1830-1905 UTC; 11:30-12:05 PDT; 2:30-3:05 EDT.

  -alan

Thus spake Alan Hannan (alan at globalcenter.net)
 on or about Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 12:36:51PM -0700:
> 
>   The time should be corrected below as 1830 UTC [11:30 PDT], 
>   ending approximately 1705 UTC, or 12:05 PDT.
> 
>   -a
> 
> Thus spake Alan Hannan (alan at globalcenter.net)
>  on or about Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 12:34:48PM -0700:
> > 
> >   At approximately 1830 UTC [12:00 noon PDT] globalcenter
> >   [AS3549] started announcing full routes to peers at most
> >   exchange points with an AS-Path of 3549 [customer-as]
> >   [worlds view].
> > 
> >   This was due to a misconfiguration by a downstream customer
> >   and the peering session filters during a customer turn-up.
> >   This incident started at approximately 1830 UTC and abated
> >   approximately 1705 UTC.
> > 
> >   It appears that the BGP withdrawal propogation is quite
> >   latent due to improper congestion due to this event, but
> >   the withdrawls are processing.
> > 
> >   We apologize for any inconvenience this caused you or your
> >   customers.
> > 
> >   We are reavaluating our turn-up policies and routing filters
> >   to prevent a problem such as this from occuring again.
> > 
> >   Please contact our network operations center
> >   (noc at globalcenter.net) with any questions or concerns.
> > 
> >   Our internal operations ticket is 9808040108.
> > 
> >   -alan
> > 