Re: Strange BGP announcement

[Andrew Bangs <andrewb () demon net>]

patrick () ianai net wrote:
> At 01:00 AM 11/14/98 +0000, Andrew Bangs wrote:
>
> > > > 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.
>
> You really want all backbone routers to ignore AS-Path length in the BGP
> route selection process?  I think I like it better the way it is now - at
> least for the near future.


I don't recall saying that, or anything about route selection.
I don't want all backbone routers (or any of them, for that matter)
ignoring Update messages (or worse, propagating the announcements) with
malformed AS_PATH attributes when they should be returning a NOTIFY and
closing the BGP session. 



 Regards,
 Andrew
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Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Manager, Demon Internet Ltd
andrewb () demon net  http://www.demon.net/ http://www.demon.nl/