[132008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS path question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Nov 10 20:25:54 2010
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:25:46 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- jbates@brightok.net wrote:
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
On 11/10/2010 5:44 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
> Do you think (or is there evidence) that very many ASs use maxas-limit type commands? I have never used it and never had any problems...
: ...but just to be safe I added it to all my routers. I
: don't know where I came up with the magical 75 number,
: but it definitely seems reasonable that anything with
: 75+ ASNs in the path probably don't deserve to be in
: my table.
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Why did that make you feel safe? Other than a bug, and ignorance of BGP, what is unsafe about a lotta prepends?
scott
