[NANOG] Strange network behaviour

Deepak Jain deepak at ai.net
Mon May 5 19:37:23 UTC 2008


Did your inbound path change as a result? Sounds like a path asymmetry 
issue might be involved.

Douglas K. Rand wrote:
> In the popular tradition of replying to my own post ...
> 
> It seems that this problem started right around the time I changed our
> BGP configuration. I did:
> 
> config term
> route-map att_out permit 9999
> set as-path prepend 19317 19317
> exit
> clear ip bgp 12.87.125.249 out
> 
> This change was to increase our prepending of our own AS path from 1
> to two. It was:  set as-path prepend 19317
> 
> And we /could/ have had another host with a similar problem but with a
> different end point, this time in Canada, and the (outbound) route to
> our Canadian server does not transit either Level3 or Shaw cable.
> 
> We did not identify exactly when it started working again, we were
> poking around this problem and then happened to check and it was
> working. It is *possible*, but by no means confirmed, that a
> traceroute allowed to go through all its timeouts to the Canadian
> server may have also switched that problem off too.
> 
> 
> Doug "Still searching for answers" Rand.
> 
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