On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 at 15:33, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > To the chucklehead who started announcing a 2200+ byte AS path yesterday > around 18:27 EDT, I beg of you: STOP. You've triggered a bug in Quagga > that's present in all versions released in the last decade. Your > announcement causes routers based on Quagga to send a malformed update to > their neighbors, collapsing the entire BGP session. Every 30 seconds or so. > > For everyone else: please consider filtering BGP announcements with > stupidly long AS paths.
Nowhere in the BGP RFCs it says it is okay for the software to crash. Bugs happen. You patch and move on. :-) >
