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<div><font color="#002060">Barlaam writes "A bug by router vendor A (omitting a range check from a critical field in the configuration interface) tickled a bug from router vendor B (dropping BGP sessions when processing some ASPATH attributes with length very
close to 256), causing a ripple effect that caused widespread global routing instability last week. The flaw lay dormant until one of vendor A's systems was deployed in an autonomous system whose ASN, modulo 256, was greater than 250. At that point, the Internet
was one typo away from disaster. Other router vendors, who were not affected by the bug, happily propagated the trigger message to every vulnerable system on the planet in about 30 seconds. Few people appreciate how fragile and unsecured the Internet's trust-based
critical infrastructure really is — this is just the latest example." Vendor A, in this case, is a Latvian router vendor called MikroTik.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#002060">Is this just the 4byte ASN thing from months ago or something new?</font></div>
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<div><font color="#002060">I knew there was a reason I hated Mikrotik’s so much.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#002060">Skeeve Stevens, CEO/Technical Director</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#002060">eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#002060">skeeve@eintellego.net /
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