===== Alan Barrett previously wrote: ====
That's independent of the issue I am talking about, which is that the BGP sesson between AS3741 and AS6180 had been shut down for several hours, the route in question was no longer present in AS3741, but the route still appeared (with path "1673 1239 4005 3741 6180") at DIGEX's MAE-East looking glass. The route should have been withdrawn completely from the entire Internet when the BGP session between AS6180 and AS3741 was shut down, but the route was not properly withdrawn. DIGEX should not have seen any trace of the route (except perhaps a history entry for flap damping purposes).
It would not hurt to check a few other looking glasses. Such as, route-views.oregon-ix.net or route-server.cerf.net to see if the path is really there. We have found out that some of these looking glasses sometimes keep the routes much longer, at one time several hours after we see routes disppeared in our routers. Just one observation. Jun