[128425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS0 in AS path
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Aug 6 17:54:27 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <20852.1281131288@localhost>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:52:09 -1000
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:15:47 MDT, Mikhail Strizhov said:
>> Does anybody have\had experience with BGP announces containing AS 0 =
in=20
>> AS path?
>> I know that AS 0 is reserved by IANA, but still, is it possible to=20=
>> receive such announce messages?
>=20
> After 3 decades in this business, I can make two predictions:
>=20
> 1) Somebody has managed to fat-finger something and announced AS0 at =
some point.
>=20
> 2) At least one vendor's gear promptly committed seppuku *after* =
passing the
> broken announcement on to its neighbors.
Those aren't predictions, they're statistically certain observations. =
:-)
Regards,
-drc
