RE: 7007: FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH

[Dave Van Allen <dave () fast net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Avi Freedman [SMTP:freedman () netaxs com]
> Sent:  Friday, April 25, 1997 5:20 PM
> To:    freedman () access netaxs com; nanog () merit edu
> 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)
> dave () fast net (610)289-1100 http://www.fast.net
> FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Business Internet Solutions
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