All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 07:17:44AM -0500, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote:
> 
> We've seen multiple outages between gigapops in Canada towards CANARIE, 
> apparently due to a routing table leak that triggered some folks' maximum 
> prefix settings on BGP peerings.  But, maybe, that's a coincidence.

No, I don't think it was a coincidence - based on that lead I looked at the 
BGP prefix graphs maintained by one of our member campuses and I see huge 
jumps on both their NYSERNet connection and the direct NLR peering they 
maintain. I think someone leaked about 328k routes, and in fact it looks as 
though it happened twice (or a session reset and re-established). 

We don't have max-prefix set on our large external connections like I2 and 
NLR, but obviously we're going to have to do that. . .

Bill.