[21409] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange BGP announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enke Chen)
Fri Nov 13 16:10:23 1998
To: haug@seicom.NET
cc: "Enke Chen" <enkechen@cisco.com>, "Andrew Bangs" <andrewb@demon.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 21:38:41 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:42:59 -0800
From: Enke Chen <enkechen@cisco.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 21:38:41 +0100
> From: "Winfried Haug" <haug@seicom.NET>
> To: "Enke Chen" <enkechen@cisco.com>, "Andrew Bangs" <andrewb@demon.net>
> CC: <nanog@merit.edu>
> > Yep, an invalid as-path attribute was injected from somewhere. Our as-path
> > sanity check code failed to catch this case.
>
> thank you for this nice code, which caused our gated to crash...
> Where may i send my bill to :-)))
I suggest the bill be sent to the guy/vendor that injected the
bad path :-)
>
> >
> > We have opened the following ddts:
> >
> > ======
> > Bug ID : CSCdk63586 Project: CSC.sys Status : O
> > 3 encls
> > Product : all Found : customer-use Care Update: N
> > Versions : 11.1CC
> > Headline : BGP: Tighten as-path sanity check
>
> fine to see, that it is corrected in 12.0(2)S.
It is being patched into many other versions that are of interest
to customers.
> This will be another reason for
> cisco to force everybody to throw away 11.1.X up to 11.3.X....
That might be ***your*** reason, but not Cisco's as far as I can
tell :-)
-- Enke
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