[195092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Long AS Path
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jun 21 08:28:36 2017
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:27:57 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
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> 177.23.232.0/24 *[BGP/170] 00:52:40, MED 0, localpref 105 ...
> ...
> I see no valid reason for such long AS paths.
[ assuming it is not the microtik thing ]
the /24 can not be sliced to steer inbound, so they're desperately
trying to push it away with prepend. of course, their upstreams all
prefer customers, so they keep adding prepends in some vain hope.
randy
