[108731] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What's with all the long aspaths?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Oct 22 22:58:01 2008
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: James Baker <James.Baker@chelmer.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <64396C74FCE435468BE2AF5A73F9C2FD869479@chmaexch.chelmer.co.nz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Yeah...prepending isn't a big deal...but when someone prepends their own
AS 70+ times, I wonder WTF they're thinking.
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, James Baker wrote:
> bgp path prepend?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2008 3:40 p.m.
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: What's with all the long aspaths?
>
> Is there something silly going around? I doubt I'm the only one
> noticing
> these being triggered by our generous maxas-limit setting.
>
> Oct 9 23:01:46: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 27754 27754 27754 ...
> Oct 17 11:10:40: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 43413 43413 43413 ...
> Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 38230 38230 38230 ...
>
> Anyone have theories as to what these networks are trying to accomplish?
>
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