RE: What's with all the long aspaths?

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

Yeah...prepending isn't a big deal...but when someone prepends their own 
AS 70+ times, I wonder WTF they're thinking.

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, James Baker wrote:

> bgp path prepend?
>
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> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: What's with all the long aspaths?
>
> Is there something silly going around?  I doubt I'm the only one
> noticing
> these being triggered by our generous maxas-limit setting.
>
> Oct  9 23:01:46: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 27754 27754 27754 ...
> Oct 17 11:10:40: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 43413 43413 43413 ...
> Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 38230 38230 38230 ...
>
> Anyone have theories as to what these networks are trying to accomplish?
>
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