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

[Matt Mathis]

No, that paper was perhaps 10 years later.  The perp reached out to me, so
details might be forthcoming.   (To be clear, the bug was not his at all,
and the technique in question became standard practice for many years).

Thanks,
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On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM Frantisek Borsik <frantisek.borsik at gmail.com>
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> 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
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> All the best,
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> 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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>> to
>> apply it to others.
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