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>-----Original Message----- >From: Avi Freedman [SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, April 25, 1997 5:20 PM >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: 7007: FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH > > >MAI's view: > >Here's a status on what AS 7007 themselves saw and think happened. >They're disconnected from the 'net now, so they can't post this >themselves. >MAI does NOT think that they were distributing the BGP routes into an >IGP and then readvertising them on that basis; they think there was/is >a Bay BGP bug that caused this to happen. > >Or Bay unfamiliarity, to be fair. BCN's are all over the core participating >in BGP everyday in some very large networks as you know. If MIA is not >running the Bay ISP workspace code, then they need to get Bay to educate them >on what's available and appropriate for their environment. > >An outside view of what happened: > >And ASN 7007 > >We saw about 60k routes in our core routers at the time, and saw >thousands of routes from 7007 when we looked more carefully. > >When you and I were on the phone, we saw 70K at one time, and the Cisco's >were at 100% doing nothing but route calculations. > >We kept clearing sessions to filter 7007 but the routes kept popping >back up: Sprint (of course), UUNET, and MCI all had them. > >Which of course half of the Net was doing, so all routers running dampening, >had 3/4 of the prefixes on hold. > >Now a good 4 hours after the main-event, I still see MAE routers with a >couple thousand dampened paths. Most of the connectivity is stable now (from >my view), so some of you can clear ip bgp damp and make a few more customers >happy. > >I suppose that the immediate topic will be route filtering vs. >AS_PATH filtering... > >As it should of been a long time ago. > >Raw fish tonight, Avi? > >Best regards, > >Dave Van Allen - You Tools Corporation/FASTNET(tm) >[email protected] (610)289-1100 http://www.fast.net >FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Business Internet Solutions > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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