[18542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: leaking of routes by AS3549
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Tue Aug 4 15:50:39 1998
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 12:36:51 -0700
From: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980804123448.51544@globalcenter.net>; from Alan Hannan on Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 12:34:48PM -0700
The time should be corrected below as 1830 UTC [11:30 PDT],
ending approximately 1705 UTC, or 12:05 PDT.
-a
Thus spake Alan Hannan (alan@globalcenter.net)
on or about Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 12:34:48PM -0700:
>
> At approximately 1830 UTC [12:00 noon PDT] globalcenter
> [AS3549] started announcing full routes to peers at most
> exchange points with an AS-Path of 3549 [customer-as]
> [worlds view].
>
> This was due to a misconfiguration by a downstream customer
> and the peering session filters during a customer turn-up.
> This incident started at approximately 1830 UTC and abated
> approximately 1705 UTC.
>
> It appears that the BGP withdrawal propogation is quite
> latent due to improper congestion due to this event, but
> the withdrawls are processing.
>
> We apologize for any inconvenience this caused you or your
> customers.
>
> We are reavaluating our turn-up policies and routing filters
> to prevent a problem such as this from occuring again.
>
> Please contact our network operations center
> (noc@globalcenter.net) with any questions or concerns.
>
> Our internal operations ticket is 9808040108.
>
> -alan
>
