[47247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP route explosion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Herdman)
Wed May 1 15:31:56 2002
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 15:31:26 -0400
To: Toan Do <toando9@aol.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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From: andrew@whine.com (Andrew Herdman)
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We saw at least an extra 10k prefixes, the router is/was configured to stop at 120k prefixes, little did I know that it would shutdown the BGP session at that point.
Thanks for the info.
Andrew
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:50:55AM -0400, Toan Do wrote:
> How many extra prefixes did u see? We saw about 10k prefixes more than
> normal
>
> Toan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> andrew@whine.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:42 AM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: BGP route explosion
>
>
>
> I had a network outage this morning brought about by a BGP route
> explosion at around 6:30 EST(-4) this morning. Anyone else notice it,
> and who the culprit whats? I got the exact same hit from both my
> providers, AT&T Can, and Telus.
>
> Thanks
> Andrew
>
