Re: Strange BGP announcement

[Andrew Bangs <andrewb () demon net>]

> > Date:    Fri, 13 Nov 1998 21:38:41 +0100
> > From:    "Winfried Haug" <haug () seicom NET>
> > To:      "Enke Chen" <enkechen () cisco com>, "Andrew Bangs" <andrewb () demon net>
> > CC:      <nanog () merit edu>
>
> > > Yep, an invalid as-path attribute was injected from somewhere. Our as-path
> > > sanity check code failed to catch this case.
> >
> > thank you for this nice code, which caused our gated to crash...
> > Where may i send my bill to :-)))
>
> I suggest the bill be sent to the guy/vendor that injected the 
> bad path :-)

Hmm. If the upstream had been running code that did what the RFC says
then Winfried wouldn't have a bill to send to anybody...
It isn't like this was the first time we've seen this problem, either.

> > > We have opened the following ddts:
> > >
> > > ======
> > > Bug ID   : CSCdk63586          Project: CSC.sys        Status : O
> > >      3 encls
> > > Product  : all                 Found  : customer-use   Care Update: N

"customer-use" ? *rofl*


 Regards,
 Andrew