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Re: seeing the trees in the forest of confusion
- From: Avi Freedman
- Date: Sat Apr 26 14:55:44 1997
> I agree that there appears to be some underlying problem with the BGP code
> on the backbone that is delaying route withdrawals beyond a reasonable
> time. We ran into a similar problem Wednesday night where one of our
> customers started advertising more specifics for our network blocks to
> another transit provider (who does not filter customer routes). After
> shutting down the customer's BGP peering, the bogus routes were still in
> the table an hour later at which time we started advertising our own more
> specifics to restore service to our other customers -- this lead to our
> unfortunate position in Thursday's CIDR report.
Were they in as dampened; history; or just in as if they were in and had
not flapped?
Dampening of more specific bogus announcements is a problem I'd like to
see addressed, since the more general (and correct) routes won't be used
if more specifics are dampened.
> - Doug
Avi
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