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Re: Global view increase (was:BGP route explosion)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu May 2 06:34:30 2002

From: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: James Spenceley <jrs@comindico.com.au>,
	"'neil@DOMINO.ORG'" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>, andrew@whine.com
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Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 06:32:27 -0400
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On Thu, 2 May 2002 19:59:52 +1000 
 James Spenceley <jrs@comindico.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Around 15mins ago an additional ~5,000 routes entered the
> global view, sadly
> they appear to be hanging around. 

This one I see.

These are coming from UUNET -at least as seen from here - 
AS 705 added 4426 prefixes (from 609).

As there was not a corresponding increase in address space,
this is really more of a de-aggragation.

Same thing happened on Wed Apr 24 06:12:20, when
AS 701 added 2364 prefixes (from 2053). Again, it looked
like a de-aggragation.

If you look at Figure 1b of
http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html

you can clearly see both jumps.

AS 705 has only one ASN in transit through it from here.
The recent change was all _inside_ AS 705.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks


> 
> Last Tuesday had an increase of 2,000 routes. 
> 
> +7000 routes in a week is significant de-aggregation or
> leak, any ideas on
> where these routes are flowing ?
> 
> I've not seen an increase on any of our peers, so I can
> only assume its
> coming from a network who doesn't peer particularly
> "openly".
> 
> --
> James


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