Two administrative boo-boos?

Fri Apr 13 06:23:26 UTC 2001

I know I must be stupid for replying but here goes :

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:59:01AM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
> I believe I've found two administrative boo-boos.
> 
> 4 mae-east.enkido.net (198.32.187.119) [5696] 27.268 ms 23.847 ms 24.667 ms
> 
> Problem #1: The hop above is showing up for traces into an exodus.  
> 
>  3 border1-atm6-0-0-2.Reston.fnsi.net (216.29.101.50) [6259] 22.570 ms 22.259 ms 22.417 ms
>  4 mae-east.enkido.net (198.32.187.119) [5696] 31.558 ms 23.003 ms 23.337 ms
>  5 bbr01-g4-0.hrnd01.exodus.net (216.33.203.125) [3967] 32.443 ms 24.051 ms 23.436 ms

Did you contact FNSI and find out why they are doing this?  I don't
see how nanog can help.  Tons of people do funky and sometimes 
downright stupid things on the Internet.. if we posted them all
to nanog you'd never be able to read it all :)

> Problem #2: It looks like Winstar is announcing EP space.
> 
> BGP routing table entry for 198.32.187.0/24
> Paths: (1 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
>   13706 5696
>     66.35.64.10 from 66.35.64.10 (216.226.130.1)
>       Origin IGP, metric 1000, localpref 100, valid, external, best
>       Community: 13944:13706
>       Last update: Sat Apr  7 13:49:33 2001

route-views.oregon-ix.net>show ip bgp 198.32.187.0
BGP routing table entry for 198.32.187.0/24, version 41593
Paths: (17 available, best #16)

It looks like everyone is.. if you follow christians filters you would
not have this problem.. if it is a problem.. I mean.. who in this day
and age doesn't re-write next-hop.. :)

	Thanks!

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