Re: What's with all the long aspaths?

["Jason Iannone" <jason.iannone () gmail com>]

Except when their primary path goes away and relatively few networks
install the prepended route.  It's all conjecture, but I like the 'in
effort to defeat local pref' option.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tomas L. Byrnes <tomb () byrneit net> wrote:
> Not using that prepended route is exactly what the point of the prepend
> is, so that's not "punishment".
>
> It may, in fact, be exactly what they're trying to get you to do.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis () lewis org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:17 PM
> > To: Mike Lewinski
> > Cc: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: What's with all the long aspaths?
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Lewinski wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sure they get the attention of NOCs around the world as messages
> > like
> > > this show up on consoles
> > >
> > > Oct 22 04:34:05 MDT: %BGP-6-BIGCHUNK: Big chunk pool request (306)
> for
> > > aspath. Replenishing with malloc
> >
> > You might consider something like bgp maxas-limit 75 to exchange that
> > log
> > message for the less scarey
> > Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path ...
> >
> > As an added bonus, you ignore their route while they're playing such
> > games.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Jon Lewis                   |  I route
> >  Senior Network Engineer     |  therefore you are
> >  Atlantic Net                |
> > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________