To the chucklehead who started announcing a 2200+ byte AS path yesterday around 18:27 EDT, I beg of you: STOP. You've triggered a bug in Quagga that's present in all versions released in the last decade. Your announcement causes routers based on Quagga to send a malformed update to their neighbors, collapsing the entire BGP session. Every 30 seconds or so. For everyone else: please consider filtering BGP announcements with stupidly long AS paths. There's no need nor excuse for them to be present in the DFZ and you could have saved me a painful Saturday. Cisco: router bgp XXX bgp maxas-limit 50 Juniper: https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB29321 Quagga: ip as-path access-list maxas-limit50 deny ^([{},0-9]+ ){50} ip as-path access-list maxas-limit50 permit .* Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>