[routing-wg] New on RIPE Labs: BGP Zombies

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:06:08AM +0200, Emile Aben wrote:
> On 23/04/2019 19:54, Sander Steffann wrote:
> >> These are "ghosts", not zombies :-)
> >>
> >> https://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/
> > 
> > Yep, just a new name for the same old thing :)
> 
> I had a similar conversation with somebody insisting these things are
> called 'stuck routes'.   8)

Both "zombie" and "stuck routes" describes the phenomenom fairly well :-)

I'd go for prior art, and claim "ghosts" is the oldest documented term
(though, back then, when I was young and thought I found something new
in IPv6 BGP, Randy Bush told me that this was something long known in
the IPv4 world...)

Gert Doering
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