Re: BGP noise tonight?

[<jlewis () lewis org>]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 cowie () renesys com wrote:

> collection points in Amsterdam.  The trouble started around 20:00 GMT,
> hit its peak by about 21:00 GMT, and has trailed off slowly since then.
>
> Looking at the worst-behaved prefixes and AS paths led me to put in
> a call to the tech support center of an unnamed Major Provider, who
> confirmed that there had been a major BGP event but would provide
> no specifics.

I suspect that was C&W.  I talked to them with a customer of theirs while
we tried to figure out what was going on.  We weren't able to get any
details from them other than "something bad in the global table, switch to
customer routes and we can keep your session up."  So we did that.

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