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Re: Anomalies with AS13214 ?


From: Russell Heilling <chewtoy () s8n net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:50:02 +0100

2009/5/11 Ricardo Oliveira <rveloso () cs ucla edu>:
Hi all,

First, thanks for using Cyclops, and thanks for all the Cyclops users that
drop me a message about this.

It seems some router in AS13214 decided to originate all the prefixes and
send them to AS48285 in the Caymans, all the ASPATHs are 48285 13214.
The first announcement was on 2009-05-11 11:03:11 UTC and last on 2009-05-11
12:16:32 UTC, there were 266,289 prefixes leaked (they were withdrawn
afterwards)

It looks like AS13214 are misbehaving again...  We have just started
receiving cyclops alerts indicating that AS13214 is announcing our
prefixes again:

Alert ID:                     4927389
Alert type:                   origin change
Monitored ASN,prefix:         78.154.96.0/19
Offending attribute:          78.154.96.0/19-13214
Date:                         2009-07-28 08:30:56 UTC
Duration:                     00:00:01 (hh:mm:ss)
No. monitors:                 1
(http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/view_monitors.html?aid=4927389)
Announced prefix:             78.154.96.0/19
Announced ASPATH:             48285 13214
BGP message:
http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/show_myalert.html?aid=4927389

I guess ROBTEX didn't implement ingress filters after the last episode...

As indicated in the Cyclops alerts, only a single monitor(AS48285) in
route-views4 detected this leak. I checked on other neighbors of AS13214 and
they seem fine, so it seems it was only a single router issue.

This incident shows the advantage of having a wide set of peers for
detection, it seems Cyclops was the only tool to detect this incident. Given
the amount of banks and financial institutions in the Caymans, i would
otherwise have raised a red flag, but it seems this case was an
unintentional misconfig by AS13214.

Would appreciate any further comment on the tool, and happy cyclopying!

--Ricardo
the Cyclops guy
http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu


On May 11, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote:

We're getting cyclops[1] alerts that AS13214 is advertising itself as
origin for all of our prefixes.  Their anomaly report shows thousands of
prefixes originating there.

Anyone else seeing evidence of this or being affected?


[1] http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/


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