[outages] 3356 does not WITHDRAW bgp routes

randal k rkohutek+outages at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 08:52:16 EDT 2020


Watching closely, after applying ^3356$ on our inbound routes, I can
see that they are bouncing sessions and slowly adding in prefixes -- I
have 17x 3356-originated routes in PA, and 893x in CO. And they have
reset the PA BGP session numerous times.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 6:33 AM randal k <rkohutek+outages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Seeing the same thing - shut a peer, still seeing those routes via
> 3356 across multiple route-servers & looking glasses.
>
> So, do we disconnect 3356 and suffer the blackhole in hopes that it
> will eventually withdraw those routes, or leave it on to prevent
> blackholing but suffer massive packet loss to other carriers? Wow.
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 6:28 AM Lukas Tribus via Outages
> <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> >
> > As previously mentioned by Stephen Flynn, 3356 does not WITHDRAW stale
> > bgp routes, can be confirmed with AT&T's route server at (telnet
> > route-server.ip.att.net).
> >
> > Stale routes from 1 hour + are still announced by 3356.
> >
> >
> > This is causing blackholing.
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