BGP route explosion

Wed May 1 19:31:26 UTC 2002

We saw at least an extra 10k prefixes, the router is/was configured to stop at 120k prefixes, little did I know that it would shutdown the BGP session at that point.

Thanks for the info.

Andrew

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:50:55AM -0400, Toan Do wrote:
> How many extra prefixes did u see?  We saw about 10k prefixes more than
> normal
> 
> Toan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> andrew at whine.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:42 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: BGP route explosion
> 
> 
> 
> I had a network outage this morning brought about by a BGP route
> explosion at around 6:30 EST(-4) this morning.  Anyone else notice it,
> and who the culprit whats?  I got the exact same hit from both my
> providers, AT&T Can, and Telus.
> 
> Thanks
>   Andrew
> 