[170670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGPMON Alert Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu Apr 3 08:14:57 2014
X-Envelope-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:17:07 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: ML <ml@kenweb.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <533D4F7F.2070206@kenweb.org>
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On 03/04/2014 13:09, ML wrote:
> Did you get any details on what specifically went wrong? I don't recall
> any switch in my routing gear to "re-originate every prefix on the planet
> as my own".
Easy enough to do by e.g. redistributing your ebgp into your IGP and then
back again, or by a variety of other means. It happened between 05:00 and
06:00 local time, so it's reasonable to assume that it was maintenance gone
wrong. Horribly wrong.
Nick
