On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:36:49PM -0400, cowie@renesys.com wrote:
Say, our alarms went off tonight when we saw a roughly tenfold spike in BGP prefix announcement and withdrawal rates at RIPE's rrc00 and rrc03 collection points in Amsterdam. The trouble started around 20:00 GMT, hit its peak by about 21:00 GMT, and has trailed off slowly since then.
Looking at the worst-behaved prefixes and AS paths led me to put in a call to the tech support center of an unnamed Major Provider, who confirmed that there had been a major BGP event but would provide no specifics.
So, what's going on out there in the NOCs tonight? Inquiring minds want to know. --jim
Another poison route taking down sessions to RFC-compliant routers, it looks like. At least, we reset sessions on all of our routers that reset last time due to this issue, and not a flinch on $VENDOR's routers that are known to disobey the RFC. All of our (Tier 1, for whatever value you see it) upstreams saw it throughout their networks; this would explain the exceedingly high BGP levels, even discounting the "fragile" edge. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/