Is Qwest leaking routes?
Charles Sprickman
spork at inch.com
Tue Oct 27 06:18:06 UTC 1998
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >Yes, it appears Qwest was leaking routes, but they are fixing it...
Am I just silly to assume that it shouldn't take so long for such
well-funded companies to communicate with each other? AS286 is EUNet,
right? This all started sometime yesterday... I still see this:
BGP routing table entry for 206.97.128.0/19, version 10233204
Paths: (1 available, best #1)
3847 1239 1800 209 286 3561
207.240.48.45 from 207.240.48.45 (207.240.48.1)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external, best
This is a C&W customer. Now I'm single-homed, so I'm no BGP expert, but I
think this is telling me that EUNet is claiming to be in the path here.
How can it possibly take so long to work something like this out?
Charles
> Its always so much fun to watch billion dollar companies dance around
> the issues.
>
> Qwest's spokesperson could not confirm nor deny any problem, and
> even if such a problem existed considered it a confidential matter.
>
> On the other hand, C&W received top billing on the news story, probally
> because they were one of the few providers to actually give any information
> to the public and reporters. Grrr. I'm not a big fan of C&W, what
> are your peering requirements this week?; but I don't like to see
> providers getting zinged for being open about network issues.
>
> However the root cause is a very old issue. It takes two to create
> a route leak. One to announce the erroronous route, and one to listen
> to the erronous route. The proper router filters on either side of
> the connection would mitigate the problem. Everyone knows the basic
> issues. 1) cisco routers can't hold the extremely large access-lists
> required to fully filter peer-to-peer connections between large providers.
> 2) some providers don't make available the information needed to
> accurately verify their routing information. 3) review the archives.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
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