[6bone] MRTD BGP withdrawal bug

John Fraizer tvo@ENTERZONE.NET
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:12:04 -0400 (EDT)


People are *STILL* running MRTd?  Hasn't it been undeveloped and abandoned
by the original developers for SEVERAL *YEARS*?

On 21 Jul 2002, Robert Kiessling wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> from observations of BGP tables, I came to the conclusion that MRTD
> has a bug processing withdrawals of routing announcements. It looks
> like this bug leads to the well-known phantom prefixes with huge AS
> paths, coming together with routing loops.
> 
> I haven't yet tried to reproduce it.
> 
> Has anyone already taken a deeper look into it?
> 
> Robert
> 
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