Long BGP AS paths

Sun Oct 1 21:29:50 UTC 2017

The outliers are >100. Based on several peering points, <= 60 should be
fine. See attached CSV file that shows the top 120 distinct AS Paths
seen for the past month. Looks like 55644 likes to prepend a lot which
is pushing the length above 50. 

--Tim 

On 01.10.2017 09:16, marcel.duregards--- via NANOG wrote: 

> What would be a recommended value for a maximum as-path filter ?
> 
> 50 ?
> 
> On the DFZ I've only 11 prefixes longer than 30 as-path, so for safety I
> would also assume 50 as a max is well enough. Any advice ?
> 
> Regards,
> -
> Marcel
> 
> On 01.10.2017 00:29, William Herrin wrote:
> 
>> To the chucklehead who started announcing a 2200+ byte AS path yesterday around 18:27 EDT, I beg of you: STOP. You've triggered a bug in Quagga that's present in all versions released in the last decade. Your announcement causes routers based on Quagga to send a malformed update to their neighbors, collapsing the entire BGP session. Every 30 seconds or so. For everyone else: please consider filtering BGP announcements with stupidly long AS paths. There's no need nor excuse for them to be present in the DFZ and you could have saved me a painful Saturday. Cisco: router bgp XXX bgp maxas-limit 50 Juniper: https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB29321 [1] Quagga: ip as-path access-list maxas-limit50 deny ^([{},0-9]+ ){50} ip as-path access-list maxas-limit50 permit .* Regards, Bill Herrin
> 
> .

Links:
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[1] https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB29321