[76258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 16-bit ASN kludge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew - Supernews)
Sat Dec 4 07:11:27 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1102097385@[172.17.1.152]> (Owen DeLong's message
of "Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:09:48 -0800")
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:10:43 +0000
From: "Andrew - Supernews" <andrew@supernews.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>>>> "Owen" == Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
Owen> I think all the meaningful parties have already pretty much
Owen> agreed on 32bit ASNs in BGP4. I think that will be coded in
Owen> the routers well before any attribute-based thing for 32bit
Owen> ASNs is. As such, I don't see much point to kludging this
Owen> instead of just going for it assuming a 32bit world.
Was I the only person who noticed when someone (apparently) typoed
their router config and leaked a 32-bit ASN into the global table?
(This was about 3 months back - I don't recall any mention of it
then)
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