Re: AS0 in AS path

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:15:47 MDT, Mikhail Strizhov said:
> > Does anybody have\had experience with BGP announces containing AS 0 in 
> > AS path?
> > I know that AS 0 is reserved by IANA, but  still, is it possible to 
> > receive such announce messages?
>
> After 3 decades in this business, I can make two predictions:
>
> 1) Somebody has managed to fat-finger something and announced AS0 at some point.
>
> 2) At least one vendor's gear promptly committed seppuku *after* passing the
> broken announcement on to its neighbors.

Those aren't predictions, they're statistically certain observations. :-)

Regards,
-drc