[108732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's with all the long aspaths?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lewinski)
Wed Oct 22 23:10:15 2008
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:09:37 -0600
From: Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0810222256310.5503@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jon Lewis wrote:
> Yeah...prepending isn't a big deal...but when someone prepends their own
> AS 70+ times, I wonder WTF they're thinking.
>
I'm sure they get the attention of NOCs around the world as messages
like this show up on consoles
Oct 22 04:34:05 MDT: %BGP-6-BIGCHUNK: Big chunk pool request (306) for
aspath. Replenishing with malloc
This time I couldn't be bothered to dig too deeply into who was the cause.