question about bgp incremental updates

3 Aug 2014

      Hi everyone,

I have a question about bgp updates:

BGP uses an incremental update strategy to conserve bandwidth and 
processing power.  That is, after initial exchange of complete routing 
information, a pair of BGP routers exchanges only the changes to that 
information. ( from RFC4274)

According to this principle, if an AS suddenly announced a lot of 
updates (as below), can it be regarded as an anomaly such as BGP session 
reset? I wish to know if there are other reasons can result in this anomaly.

Thanks!

BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.24.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.28.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.16.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.20.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.16.0/20|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.12.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.12.0/22|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.204.0/23|6939 
4436 25973 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.208.0/21|6939 
4436 25973 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.8.0/24|6939 4436 
25973 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.1.32.0/20|6939 15412 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.204.0/23|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.208.0/21|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.24.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.28.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.16.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.20.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.16.0/20|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.12.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.12.0/22|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|218.189.8.0/24|6939 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.1.32.0/20|6939 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|114.134.83.0/24|6939 
3549 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|203.90.243.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|203.90.251.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|118.143.224.0/20|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|118.143.232.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.57.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.53.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.61.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.49.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|103.17.240.0/22|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|103.17.240.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:12|A|216.218.252.164|6939|112.73.6.0/23|6939 15412 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|118.194.231.0/24|6939 
3549 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|175.100.198.0/24|6939 
3549 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|175.100.206.0/24|6939 
15412 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|210.0.209.0/24|6939 4436 
25973 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|210.3.0.0/22|6939 4436 
25973 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|210.3.4.0/23|6939 4436 
25973 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|103.227.207.0/24|6939 
1299 3257 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|114.134.83.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|203.90.243.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|203.90.251.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|118.143.224.0/20|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|118.143.232.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.57.0/24|6939 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.53.0/24|6939 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.61.0/24|6939 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|202.46.49.0/24|6939 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|103.17.240.0/22|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|103.17.240.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|112.73.6.0/23|6939 9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|118.194.231.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|175.100.206.0/24|6939 
9304|IGP
BGP4MP|04/23/14 13:05:13|A|216.218.252.164|6939|210.0.209.0/24|6939 9304|IGP

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Song
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Network Security,
Department of Electronic Engineering,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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question about bgp incremental updates

Song Li