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AS0 in AS path
- Subject: AS0 in AS path
- From: drc at virtualized.org (David Conrad)
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:52:09 -1000
- In-reply-to: <20852.1281131288@localhost>
- References: <[email protected]> <20852.1281131288@localhost>
On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:15:47 MDT, Mikhail Strizhov said:
>> Does anybody have\had experience with BGP announces containing AS 0 in
>> AS path?
>> I know that AS 0 is reserved by IANA, but still, is it possible to
>> receive such announce messages?
>
> After 3 decades in this business, I can make two predictions:
>
> 1) Somebody has managed to fat-finger something and announced AS0 at some point.
>
> 2) At least one vendor's gear promptly committed seppuku *after* passing the
> broken announcement on to its neighbors.
Those aren't predictions, they're statistically certain observations. :-)
Regards,
-drc
- References:
- AS0 in AS path
- From: strizhov at cs.colostate.edu (Mikhail Strizhov)
- AS0 in AS path
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)