Yeah...prepending isn't a big deal...but when someone prepends their own AS 70+ times, I wonder WTF they're thinking. On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, James Baker wrote:
bgp path prepend?
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org] Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2008 3:40 p.m. To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: What's with all the long aspaths?
Is there something silly going around? I doubt I'm the only one noticing these being triggered by our generous maxas-limit setting.
Oct 9 23:01:46: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 27754 27754 27754 ... Oct 17 11:10:40: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 43413 43413 43413 ... Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 38230 38230 38230 ...
Anyone have theories as to what these networks are trying to accomplish?
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