[128423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS0 in AS path
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Aug 6 17:49:43 2010
To: Mikhail Strizhov <strizhov@cs.colostate.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:15:47 MDT."
<4C5C7B83.307@cs.colostate.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:48:08 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:15:47 MDT, Mikhail Strizhov said:
> Does anybody have\had experience with BGP announces containing AS 0 in
> AS path?
> I know that AS 0 is reserved by IANA, but still, is it possible to
> receive such announce messages?
After 3 decades in this business, I can make two predictions:
1) Somebody has managed to fat-finger something and announced AS0 at some point.
2) At least one vendor's gear promptly committed seppuku *after* passing the
broken announcement on to its neighbors.
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