BGP route explosion

Wed May 1 19:33:38 UTC 2002

Has it been established yet where the extra prefixes came from?

-C

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0400, Andrew Herdman wrote:
> 
> 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
> > 
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