What would be a recommended value for a maximum as-path filter ? 50 ? On the DFZ I've only 11 prefixes longer than 30 as-path, so for safety I would also assume 50 as a max is well enough. Any advice ? Regards, - Marcel On 01.10.2017 00:29, William Herrin wrote:
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
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