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Re: Did your BGP crash today?


From: Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz () Janoszka pl>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:27:49 +0200

On 27-08-10 19:31, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:27:06 +0200, Kasper Adel said:
Havent seen a thread on this one so thought i'd start one.

Ripe tested a new attribute that crashed the internet, is that true?

If it in fact "crashed the internet", as opposed to "gave a few buggy routers
here and there indigestion", you wouldn't be posting to NANOG looking for
confirmation. :)

https://www.ams-ix.net/statistics/

Not whole internet, but a part. And the "few buggy routers here and there" were mostly Cisco CRS-1's which didn't understand the new attribute and sent a malformed message to all peers, causing them to close the BGP session.

I think most of the impact was limited to Europe, especially Amsterdam area.

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Grzegorz Janoszka


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