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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.

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Richard

> On Dec 8, 2017, at 23:04, Frank Bulk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> If the issue was that the AS PATH was zero length, can BIRD filter those out?
> 
> Frank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MICE Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doug McIntyre
> Sent: Friday, December 8, 2017 6:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] Attribute Length Error today
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>> 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.
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> They do have filters for bogons + default route.
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> 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. 
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>> 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.
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> Possibly. 
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> Doug McIntyre                            <[log in to unmask]>
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