[81426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Active BGP Probing and large AS-sets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorenzo Colitti)
Thu Jun 9 11:24:12 2005
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:24:00 +0200
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@ripe.net>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
Martin Hannigan <hannigan@verisign.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1118330033.32587.96.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jeroen Massar wrote:
> And it also makes clear why it didn't pop up in GRH, as when you insert
> the GRH ASN 8298 it won't be announced to GRH and thus it doesn't get
> detected and as quite a number of people check only there it can go
> quite unnoticed in the IPv6 tables...*
Actually, we never inserted AS8298 in any of the AS-sets we announced,
so you should have seen them...
> Sidetracking: BGP should never accept a path from another peer
> containing the ASN of a directly connected peer... does it or not?
Hmm, I don't know. It wouldn't likely be selected as best path, of
course, but why shouldn't it be accepted?
Regards,
Lorenzo
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