[j-nsp] hidden bgp route

[Bosco Sachanandani]

Hi all,

Need a small piece of info. I am running BGP with 2 upstream GRX providers. I am recieving all routes correctly from them except the ones mentioned below. 

It turns out that these prefixes are the GRX provider's network prefix's itself. Since it does not get installed in the route table, I have to put in static routes to access stuff like the their DNS servers which are part of these subnets, which is not a very nice thing to do.

My query in general is that what are "hidden" routes? I am using an M20 with JunOS , the upstream provider is using a Cisco 7000 series box. There are NO inbound BGP policies at my end.

The GRX guys cannot seem to figure out why this is happening.

thanks.


admin at srmum1-re0> show route table Gp_VRF hidden    

Gp_VRF.inet.0: 514 destinations, 525 routes (513 active, 0 holddown, 2 hidden)
+ = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both

202.123.213.80/28   [BGP/170] 23:37:07, MED 0, localpref 100, from 202.123.213.83
                      AS path: 19440 I
                      Unusable
213.181.39.0/24     [BGP/170] 23:38:48, localpref 100, from 213.181.39.20
                      AS path: 6774 I
                      Unusable