[c-nsp] BGP-6-BIGCHUNK - ever seen this message?

[Dave Temkin]

Someone send out an abnormally long AS-PATH over the weekend and anyone
who didn't have filters for maximum AS-PATH length got the error.

>From NANOG:

At 10:23 PM 30-01-05 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:

>Someone at fido.net having some bgp config issues?

Looks like someone probing for a buffer overflow on a world-wide basis.

-Hank


>Jan 30 18:34:51 EST: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path 6461 3356 6770 8282
>8282
>8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282
>8282
>8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282
>8282
>8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282
>8282
>8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282
>8282
>8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282
>8282
>8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282 8282
>8282 received from ...
>
>I got this today from 2 of 3 transit providers (6461 and 3356).
>

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I just saw this message on my gsr:
> "BGP-6-BIGCHUNK: Big chunk pool request (322) for aspath. Replenishing with
> malloc"
>
> Any ideas what it means?
>
> Thanks,
> Gunther
>
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