[21420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange BGP announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bangs)
Fri Nov 13 20:19:03 1998
To: Enke Chen <enkechen@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:00:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andrew Bangs <andrewb@demon.net>
Cc: haug@seicom.net, enkechen@cisco.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811132042.MAA29828@trix.cisco.com> from "Enke Chen" at Nov 13, 98 12:42:59 pm
>
> > 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 :-)
Hmm. If the upstream had been running code that did what the RFC says
then Winfried wouldn't have a bill to send to anybody...
It isn't like this was the first time we've seen this problem, either.
> > > We have opened the following ddts:
> > >
> > > ======
> > > Bug ID : CSCdk63586 Project: CSC.sys Status : O
> > > 3 encls
> > > Product : all Found : customer-use Care Update: N
"customer-use" ? *rofl*
Regards,
Andrew
