Stale Routes -- Long Uptime?

[Stephen Holmes]

Awesome!  Well that's an easy fix, thanks for the reply.

-Stephen

________________________________________
From: Ondrej Zajicek [santiago at crfreenet.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:52 PM
To: Stephen Holmes
Cc: bird-users at network.cz
Subject: Re: Stale Routes -- Long Uptime?

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 07:08:14PM +0000, Stephen Holmes wrote:
> Bird Users,
>
> BIRD version 1.2.5
> Uptime > 3 years, nice work guys!
>
> Two identical servers running BIRD with identical config.
>
> I ran into some routes sticking around in some of my route server
> tables from a neighbor that was down.  I did some testing and I had some
> success reloading the pipe protocols, but not 100%.  Even with that
> neighbor and all it's pipes completely removed from the config the
> routes remained, originating from the de-configured bgp peer.
>
> I am writing to see if others have had this experience with stale
> routes.  My version is really old, could this be a bug that has not
> surfaced?  Could the long uptime have lead to weirdness?  Lastly, is
> there a configuration issue that could lead to this?

Hi

This bug was fixed in 1.3.11 (and the crash is related to stale routes).

--
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net)
"To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."