Re: Can route-views be trusted?

Benjamin Collet via NANOG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.nanog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 at 10:13:53 +0200, Hank Nussbacher via NANOG wrote:
> We had F5 announce a /24 on our behalf.  We then asked F5 to withdraw that
> /24.  Route-views showed the /24 still being announced via an F5 path.  F5
> claims that route-views is incorrect and the route had been properly
> withdrawn.  They state that public route collectors (including route-views)
> reflect what their individual collector peers are seeing at a given moment.
> Due to propagation timing, peer refresh intervals, and collector update
> cycles, visibility across different monitoring platforms is not always
> perfectly synchronized in real time.

F5 has a (real time) looking glass (https://lg.as35280.net/) and their
BGP communities are documented in their AS object (whois -h
whois.ripe.net as35280). It should easily tell you if they actually
withdrew your prefix and/or where they're learning it from.

Ben
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