No reason to feed fake routes to route collectors. Some BGP players (ASN Operator) like that, and make the AS number one in stats. [image: image.png] Maybe someone knows bgp.tools, they also run route collectors but rejected AS Number which joined LL-IX <https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/2343>. (This IXP removes the as-path and feeds to their rs client.) I'm not targeting anyone, but feed fake route has no benefit, just vanity ;( Best, SteveYi Yo Email: jackcooku@steveyi.net PGP: 114A A514 776D BEAF <https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xdc0fd24ff11880af> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 6:22 AM Mike Leber via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
This kind of thing is a problem from time to time with the data we get from route collectors.
When we see it we have to add the culprit ASN to a filter list we keep in bgp.he.net.
It tends to be a repeat problem with some collectors and some ASNs.
We haven't really figured out why people send junk routes to route collectors.
The things we've seen aren't just route leaks. We've seen a variety of AS path spoofing.
We've already added this specific ASN to the filter list and pushed an update for bgp.he.net.
Note, this email is specifically talking about routes received from route collectors and not routes operationally received by he.net via BGP sessions with actual networks.
Mike.
On 7/12/22 12:49 PM, Eric Dugas via NANOG wrote:
A friend of mine mentioned that both our Canadian ASNs were listed in AS147028's peer list on https://bgp.he.net/AS147028 but we have no adjacency to this network.
Their peer count jumped from 1 in May 2022 to 1,800 and just a few days ago jumped to 8,800. Beside NL-IX, all the IX they are listed on are virtual IX with a few dozen "hobby networks".
The only lead I have is they use HE as transit and they're pumping back BGP feed to route collectors like RIPE RIS or Route Views with routes stripped of HE's ASN.
Eric