Re: AS Leakage

[Travis Pugh <tpugh () shore net>]

I take transit from Qwest (209), and had to contact them directly and open
a ticket several weeks ago to get them to stop leaking private ASNs into
my tables.  They stopped leaking them to me, but apparently going the
extra step and making sure the leak was filtered everywhere was too much
to ask.

-travis

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> Hello;
>
>    In our BGP table, there are this morning the following AS's :
>
>  AS  64610 :    1 prefixes :    1 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path  1239   209 64610
>  AS  64615 :    2 prefixes :    2 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path  1239   209 64615
>  AS  64616 :    3 prefixes :    3 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path  1239   209 64616
>  AS  65008 :    3 prefixes :    3 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path   145  2200 65008
>  AS  65102 :    3 prefixes :    3 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path  1239   209 65102
>  AS  65209 :   12 prefixes :   12 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path  1239   209 65209
>  AS  65498 :    1 prefixes :    1 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path  1239   209 65498
>
> In the MBGP table for multicast, there are
>
>  AS  64580 :    9 prefixes :    9 prefixes supported :   5 hops : as path  1239  5511  2200  2074 64580
>  AS  65001 :    1 prefixes :    1 prefixes supported :   4 hops : as path  3300  8933  2200 65001
>  AS  65498 :    1 prefixes :    1 prefixes supported :   3 hops : as path  1239   209 65498
>
>
> I thought that these AS's were not supposed to be advertised globally.
> Is this really a problem ? Is it worth the effort to track the sources of these down and
> try and get them to remove them ?
>
>
>                                    Regards
>                                    Marshall Eubanks
>
>
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