[13247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problems with specific routing policies for each exchange point
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cengiz Alaettinoglu)
Fri Oct 31 12:11:41 1997
To: khuon@Merit.Net (Jake Khuon)
cc: mark@exodus.net (Mark Tripod), nanog@Merit.Net, cengiz@ISI.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:45:25 EST."
<199710310445.XAA03271@Espresso.Merit.Net>
Reply-To: cengiz@ISI.EDU
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 97 09:09:16 PST
From: Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz@ISI.EDU>
This problem was addressed in the design of RAWhoisd. I will tell Jake how to
use it.
"Jake Khuon" on Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:45:25 -0500 said:
> ### On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:02:02 -0800, mark@exodus.net (Mark Tripod) wrote
> ### to <nanog@Merit.Net> concerning "Problems with specific routing policies
> ### for each exchange point":
>
> MT> I ran in to a little problem yesterday with my peering sessions wih the
> MT> various route servers around the country. The problem was that I was not
> MT> receiving routes from particular ASNs anymore. With a little help from Ja
ke
> MT> at Merit we were able to pinpoint the problem in my rs-in configuration.
It
> MT> seems that I was importing two different AS macros that each referenced t
he
> MT> other (AS-GENUITY and AS-NAPNET). This created a loop in the macro parser
> MT> on the route server which in turn nullified my routing policy.
>
> I would reccommend anyone referencing any of those two macros in their rs-in
> or rs-out to discontinue doing so at least until which time I can throw in a
> bugfix to handle looping expansions. Currently the expansion routine in the
> preprocessor will reach a depth limit and then spit out an error which gets
> interpretted by the main routine as a bogus expansion. This will nullify
> that import.
>
>
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