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