Long AS Path

Jakob Heitz (jheitz) jheitz at cisco.com
Thu Jun 22 14:52:11 UTC 2017


23456 is AS_TRANS. Either your router does not support 4 byte AS or there is a bug at AS 12956 or AS 12956 is intentionally prepending 23456.

Thanks,
Jakob.


> 
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:12:45 +0000
> From: James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com>
> To: "nanog at nanog.org" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Long AS Path
> Message-ID: <e679487be750411a874b7376a7037aa9 at EX-01.m21.local>
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> 
> Dear All
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else saw this yesterday afternoon ?
> 
> Jun 20 16:57:29:E:BGP: From Peer 38.X.X.X received Long AS_PATH= AS_SEQ(2) 174 12956 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 ... attribute length (567) More than configured MAXAS-LIMIT
> 
> Jun 20 16:15:26:E:BGP: From Peer 78.X.X.X received Long AS_PATH= AS_SEQ(2) 5580 3257 12956 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 23456 ... attribute length (568) More than configured MAXAS-LIMIT
> 
> Someone is having fun, creating weird and wonderful long AS paths based around AS 23456, we saw the same pattern of data from numerous upstream providers.
> 
> Kindest Regards,
> 
> James Braunegg
> 
> 



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