Zero length is a subset of “doesn’t start with their AS”, so if we filter on that condition, hopefully we will catch that too. -- Richard > On Dec 8, 2017, at 23:04, Frank Bulk <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > If the issue was that the AS PATH was zero length, can BIRD filter those out? > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: MICE Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doug McIntyre > Sent: Friday, December 8, 2017 6:15 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > 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. > > > -- > Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> > ~.~ ipHouse ~.~ > Network Engineer/Provisioning/Jack of all Trades >