[6bone] AS1654/SICS announce 178 prefixes !

[Lars Albertsson]

Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:54:58PM +0200, Lars Albertsson wrote:
> > > > Seconded, I see that as well - 1654 is originating half of the prefixes
> > > > as their own.  BGP bug or human goof...
> > 
> > Some additional information: It seems that there is some confusion
> > about the ownership of AS1654, and that we are not the only site
> > announcing AS1654 for IPv6 routing. I don't know whether that has
> > anything to do with the problems you saw or not. We are working on
> > sorting out the ownership issue.
> 
> To followup on this (because I'm curious) - has this been sorted out?  Two
> different organizations using the same AS number for routing doesn't 
> sound very healthy.

This is now sorted out. I shut down our router a few days after the
issue was brought to my attention, and we are now peering with a new
AS number. I guess the AS number conflict caused the problem. I also
upgraded zebra from 0.93a to 0.93b, in case the cause was there.

Thanks for notifying us of the problem.

/Lalle