Re: Can route-views be trusted?

>
> F5 claims that route-views is incorrect and the route had been
> properly withdrawn.


Sounds like someone at F5 is trying to cover up an oops.



On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 3:14 AM Hank Nussbacher via NANOG <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> 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 properly withdrawn.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.
>
>
> Have others seen this type of issues from route-views?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hank
>
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