[6bone] MRTD BGP withdrawal bug

[John Fraizer]

With exception to the NANOG list, which I have *NO DOUBT* would survive in
the absence of MERIT, I've come to expect nothing less than failure from
*ANYTNING* that had any root with MERIT.   If you're still using MRTd, may
I suggest that you upgrade to something that is at least maintained like
perhaps:

http://www.zebra.org/

There is even a commercial version and it doesn't even require that you
donate your first and second born like the GateD code (also of MERIT
fame) does.

I'm *so* glad that I'm not from, and don't pay taxed to,
Michigan.  Otherwise, I would feel obligated to actually get *SOMETHING*
for my money beyond funding some grad student's stipen.


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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, John Fraizer wrote:

> 
> 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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