In message <199611181859.NAA09628@merit.edu>, Craig Labovitz writes:
We don't have numbers for the number of unique routing table entries that hav e IRR origin discrepancies, bit it might be useful to look at a chart of some o f the larger providers. With the exception of Sprint, most providers seem to have ~10% error in their BGP announcements (of course, this is from a very small sampling).
(Data from 11/18/96) Provider #RT entries #discrep % -------------------------------------------- ANS 2611 186 7.13 Advantis 183 21 11.47 BBN 8996 1129 12.55 Compuserve 1523 3 .20 MCI 15135 1578 10.43 SPRINT 14085 3584 25.45 UUNet (no information available)
I just looked through: http://compute.merit.edu/stats/mae-west/problems/IRR/1673.961119.html Of the 192, in 54 the registered origin AS was in the AS path, but was not the origin AS. This is common. The provider registers the route object using the provider's AS rather the true origin AS. In some of these cases the prefix is dual homed to two ANS AS and only registered in one with policy set to accept either. One was deleted from the IRR and replaced with an aggregate but our configs haven't picked upthe change and two were listed in the Merit report as AS0, but there were IRR entries for those with the correct origin. I spot checked a bunch of others (208.141.24.0/22, 208.141.16.0/21, 207.166.192.0/19, 207.70.114.0/24) and there were route objects corresponding to the origin AS so there is also a problem with the reporting where there are false errors being listed. Curtis