[67890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 168.0.0.0/6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Feb 24 18:05:41 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:04:59 +0800
To: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>> BGP routing table entry for 168.0.0.0/6, version 7688303
>>> ...
>>> 3277 13062 20485 20485 20485 8437 3303
>>> 194.85.4.249 from 194.85.4.249 (194.85.4.249)
>>> Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external, best
>>>
>>> ripe is being overgenerous to the swiss!
>>
>> Not so. They are pretending to be over-endowed to some peers
>> only.
>
> Not so, as has been re-re-re-hashed, 3303 is sending bogon
> feeds to some parties [presumably their customers] and those
> are getting regurgitated to route-views. route-views is a
> varied slice of different kinds of announcement sets (full
> tables, partial, internal deaggs, ect etc); looking-glass
> comparison shopping is the only way to get meaningful data.
the problem is that those getting the over-reaching data have
a view of the internet which can cause them and some destinations
problems. this is very analogous to seeing 0/0 with a six hop
path in route-views, as you say, we don't really know the reach
of the bad data.
randy
