Strange route selection (defroute and specific)

Maria Matejka maria.matejka at nic.cz
Thu Nov 20 12:47:39 CET 2025


Hello Nico,

> on one pop we have a "funky" routing selection by bird:
> 
> bird> show route all  for 185.203.114.92
> Table master4:
> 0.0.0.0/0            unreachable [defroutev4 2025-10-30] * (200)
>         preference: 200
>         source: static
>         Internal route handling values: 0L 5G 0S id 1
> 185.203.114.0/23     unicast [incoming_server122 10:21:13.232] * (100) [AS213081i]
>         via 2a0a:e5c0:74:1::2 on iserver122
>         preference: 100
>         igp_metric: 0
>         from: 2a0a:e5c0:74:1::2
>         source: BGP
>         bgp_origin: IGP
>         bgp_path: 213081
>         bgp_next_hop: 2a0a:e5c0:74:1::2
>         bgp_local_pref: 100
>         Internal route handling values: 0L 10G 2S id 227979

That's a bug in BIRD 3 CLI, apparently. In BIRD 2, we actually display
just the longest prefix match, here we display all routes which could
match.

The actual route selection is not affected in any way by this.

Gonna fix that, so that you get the LPM view back again. Sorry and
thanks for reporting.

Maria

-- 
Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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