Strange BGP announcement

Fri Nov 13 20:42:59 UTC 1998

> Date:    Fri, 13 Nov 1998 21:38:41 +0100
> From:    "Winfried Haug" <haug at seicom.NET>
> To:      "Enke Chen" <enkechen at cisco.com>, "Andrew Bangs" <andrewb at demon.net>
> CC:      <nanog at merit.edu>

> > Yep, an invalid as-path attribute was injected from somewhere. Our as-path
> > sanity check code failed to catch this case.
> 
> thank you for this nice code, which caused our gated to crash...
> Where may i send my bill to :-)))

I suggest the bill be sent to the guy/vendor that injected the 
bad path :-)

> 
> >
> > We have opened the following ddts:
> >
> > ======
> > Bug ID   : CSCdk63586          Project: CSC.sys        Status : O
> >      3 encls
> > Product  : all                 Found  : customer-use   Care Update: N
> > Versions : 11.1CC
> > Headline : BGP: Tighten as-path sanity check
> 
> fine to see, that it is corrected in  12.0(2)S. 

It is being patched into many other versions that are of interest
to customers.

> This will be another reason for
> cisco to force everybody to throw away 11.1.X up to 11.3.X....

That might be ***your*** reason, but not Cisco's as far as I can
tell :-)

-- Enke

> 
> Winfried
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