Thank you all for your assistance thus far. I wanted to confirm with my
customer that it was okay to share more details and they said it was okay. We
did just send an email to Akamai net support and awaiting their reply.
The customer is NYULH (AS 394666). They currently use NYU (AS 12) for internet
connectivity. They advertise the following prefixes to NYU:
216.165.124.0/24
216.165.125.0/24
216.165.126.0/24
216.165.127.0/24
NYU aggregates the above prefixes, strips NYULH's AS number, and replaces it
with their own AS number (AS 12).
The aggregates are as follows:
216.165.124.0/23
216.165.126.0/23
Below is a sample /23 route seen from one of the looking glass servers with
origin AS 12:
216.165.124.0/23
[DIGITALOCEAN3 2017-11-11 from 162.243.188.2] * (100/-) [AS12i]
Type: BGP unicast univ
BGP.origin: IGP
BGP.as_path: 393406 3630 12
BGP.next_hop: 162.243.188.2
BGP.local_pref: 100
BGP.atomic_aggr:
BGP.aggregator: 192.168.255.3 AS12
BGP.community: (14061,2000) (14061,2002) (14061,3000) (14061,3001)
(65363,714) (65363,2906) (65363,13335) (65363,13414) (65363,14061)
(65363,20940) (65363,32934) (65363,41690) (65363,46489) (65363,65340)
BGP.ext_community: (RPKI Origin Validation State: not-found)
With their routes originating from AS 12, all their internet connectivity works
fine.
However when they failover to their secondary path which is F5 Silverline DDOS
protection over Optimimum Lightpath, they are unable to connect to any Akamai
hosted websites.
The difference between their primary path and secondary path is that the
secondary path does not strip their origin AS 394666.
To answer Job's question, yes the originating router is AS4 capable. I checked
the looking glass link you provided and see the correct origin AS 394666. See
below:
216.165.124.0/24
[DIGITALOCEAN5 14:14:44 from 5.101.111.2] * (100/-) [AS394666i]
Type: BGP unicast univ
BGP.origin: IGP
BGP.as_path: 202109 2914 55002 394666
BGP.next_hop: 5.101.111.2
BGP.local_pref: 100
BGP.community: (2914,410) (2914,1203) (2914,2201) (2914,3200)
(14061,2100) (14061,2101) (14061,4000) (14061,4001)
BGP.ext_community: (RPKI Origin Validation State: not-found)
However we noticed some of Level 3's looking glass routers only see the
AS_Trans 23456 as shown in the output below. I'm assuming that means some of
Level3's routers are not AS4 capable, but does that mean they will drop the
routes?
Report generated from: car1.jan1
Route results for 216.165.124.0/24 from Jackson, MS
BGP routing table entry for 216.165.124.0/24
Paths: (2 available, best #2)
1299 55002 23456
AS-path translation: { TELIANET DEFENSENET-1 AS23456 }
ear3.Dallas1 (metric 43807)
Origin IGP, metric 100000, localpref 86, valid, internal
Community: North_America Lclprf_86 United_States Level3_Peer Dallas
Level3:10497
Originator: ear3.Dallas1
1299 55002 23456
AS-path translation: { TELIANET DEFENSENET-1 AS23456 }
ear3.Dallas1 (metric 43807)
Origin IGP, metric 100000, localpref 86, valid, internal, best
Community: North_America Lclprf_86 United_States Level3_Peer Dallas
Level3:10497
Originator: ear3.Dallas1
Thanks,
Greg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Job Snijders [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 11:36 AM
To: Greg Gombas -X (grgombas) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Issues with 4-octet BGP AS and Akamai?
Hi,
What prefix and ASN is this about?
Are you sure you are advertising from an AS4 capable router?
Do you see the expected 4-byte ASN as origin in a aggregator looking glass like
http://lg.ring.nlnog.net/prefix_detail/lg01/ipv4?q=www.nlnog.net ?
Kind regards,
Job
