If the issue was that the AS PATH was zero length, can BIRD filter those out?
Frank
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Subject: Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] Attribute Length Error today
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 06:03:21PM -0600, Andrew Hoyos wrote:
>The more important question - why didn’t the route servers drop that? I’d assume there should be inbound filters to drop bogons+default+$otherbadstuff.
They do have filters for bogons + default route.
I suspect bad AS attribute processing is part of what made it get leaked onwards.
The BIRD servers were logging that as well during this period.
>On a larger scale, this sort of thing begs the question - do we need to have folks in some sort of isolated VLAN with test sessions to the route servers upon turnup? SIX does this, as well as others, I suspect to prevent these exact issues from happening.
Possibly.
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