On 15/01/2013 02:37, Chandra Appanna wrote:
> I for one have not seen a lot of real data from the SPs and
> other newer users of BGP in my dealings of many years that reflect the need 
> for
> such solutions in the real world.

Chandra,

This particular problem tends only to crop up every so often, but when it
happens, the results can be devastating on a global scale, causing
wide-scale outages across the entire Internet.  The last couple of times,
the problem has been caused by malformed attributes and has affect entire
products lines, e.g. all Junipers routers in the propagation path, or all
Cisco IOS boxes, or whatever.  Or better still, when you have one vendor
for your routers and another vendor for your RRs, you can be guaranteed of
failure until all your upstreams figure out some way of filtering out the
offending UPDATEs.  It is a very real and very serious problem.  There is
lots of noise about this on nanog-l.

Nick
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