[ih] Large scale BGP failure in early 90's

[Frantisek Borsik]

Hey Matt,

Not sure if this is it, but it's the best I remember:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220195198_Beware_of_BGP_attacks


All the best,

Frank

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On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM Matt Mathis via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Is there a writeup (or does anybody recall) a large-scale BGP failure in
> the early 90s, when one ventor was testing a feature to make routes less
> preferred (AS prepending or doubling) which caused all gated based BGP
> implementation to lock up?   Unfortunately the processing order was: parse
> the test route, forward test route, and then lockup.  So the test route
> successfully flooded the entire routing system before locking up all of the
> NSFnet and many other networks.
>
> I am looking for a more complete and accurate description of this event.
>
> Thanks,
> --MM--
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