Re: Can route-views be trusted?
Hank Nussbacher via NANOG <[email protected]>
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On 03/03/2026 11:59, James Bensley wrote: Excellent and useful feedback! Thanks, Hank > Hi Hank, > > It is possible for routes to get stuck in the global routing table, > although it is pretty rare. > > The is a project called the BGP Clock, they announce prefixes, then > withdraw them, and then check if they are still visible anywhere, to > see if the prefixes are "stuck". It's called the BGP Clock because > they encode the time in the IPv6 prefix, so each prefix is unique and > you can see when it was announced (and thus how long it's been > lingering in the DFZ). > > F5s ASN in one that shows as potentially having this problem according > to this tool: > https://www.thousandeyes.com/bgp-stuck-route-observatory/?asn=35280 > > Note that this can't be taken as any sort of guarantee and this is > just a "hint" because there are many variables at play. > > I actually don't know what the "OBSERVED PATHS" is showing here, 35280 > doesn't appear in any of them, so are they the paths "up to" 35280 ? > > > With kind regards, > James. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S7PM7OIFMJHALUOXRZDGAXSTQYU6ODXV/