On 27 Aug 2010, at 19:27, Grzegorz Janoszka wrote: > On 27-08-10 19:31, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:27:06 +0200, Kasper Adel said: >>> Havent seen a thread on this one so thought i'd start one. >>> >>> Ripe tested a new attribute that crashed the internet, is that true? >> >> If it in fact "crashed the internet", as opposed to "gave a few buggy routers >> here and there indigestion", you wouldn't be posting to NANOG looking for >> confirmation. :) > > https://www.ams-ix.net/statistics/ > > Not whole internet, but a part. And the "few buggy routers here and there" > were mostly Cisco CRS-1's which didn't understand the new attribute and sent > a malformed message to all peers, causing them to close the BGP session.
In a way it remind me of the ASN4 bug .. Until a vendor fix is available I guess that the details are better left off public mailing lists. http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof12/Davidson-4_byte_asn.pdf > I think most of the impact was limited to Europe, especially Amsterdam area. Yes, It had an effect on ISPs which are connected to RIS. http://www.ripe.net/ris/ AFAIK this mean ASes at LINX and AMS-IX . The LINX graph shows a similar (but smaller) dip of 50-60 GB. Thomas
