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Re: cogent update suppression, and routing loops


From: Brandon Ewing <nicotine () warningg com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 12:56:22 -0500

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:03:15AM -0700, ryanL wrote:
(who peers with cogent), and then pull the /24 some time later, that cogent
holds onto the /24 and then bounces packets around in their network a bunch
of times for upwards of 8-10 minutes until they finally yank it. this
effectively blackholes traffic to my /24 for anyone that is using a path
thru cogent.

Maybe running into some non-standard BGP Advertisement intervals inside
Cogent's network?  Might be running a lot of sub-ASes inside the
confederation, and having to wait multiple advertisement intervals for full
propagation.

https://routingfreak.wordpress.com/tag/minimum-route-advertisement-interval/

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Brandon Ewing                                     (nicotine () warningg com)

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