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RE: What's with all the long aspaths?

  • From: Jon Lewis
  • Date: Wed Oct 22 22:57:48 2008

Yeah...prepending isn't a big deal...but when someone prepends their own AS 70+ times, I wonder WTF they're thinking.

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, James Baker wrote:

bgp path prepend?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Lewis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2008 3:40 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: What's with all the long aspaths?

Is there something silly going around?  I doubt I'm the only one
noticing
these being triggered by our generous maxas-limit setting.

Oct  9 23:01:46: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 27754 27754 27754 ...
Oct 17 11:10:40: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 43413 43413 43413 ...
Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 38230 38230 38230 ...

Anyone have theories as to what these networks are trying to accomplish?

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