[6bone] MRTD BGP withdrawal bug

Michel Py michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:41:27 -0700


Robert,

> Robert Kiessling
> 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.

The huge AS paths are not new, neither is the fact that we know it's a
withdrawal bug. May I ask how you pointed out that it's an MRTd bug?

So far, my feeling is that the issue has been solved by "let's reboot
the router and see what happens" method.

Michel.