[21607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange BGP announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (I Am Not An Isp)
Tue Nov 17 01:16:26 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:56:27 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <911005245.005247.0@office.demon.net>
At 01:00 AM 11/14/98 +0000, Andrew Bangs wrote:
>> > 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.
You really want all backbone routers to ignore AS-Path length in the BGP
route selection process? I think I like it better the way it is now - at
least for the near future.
Hrmm.... Perhaps if the vendors covered the RFC error code type stuff at
least, then they could add kewl, new features like "as-path length" as a
step in the route selection process.
> Andrew
TTFN,
patrick
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