A few years ago a team of researchers tried to use a feature attribute flag in BGP. Their experiment caused an important BGP software to crash.
The BGP community reacted by thanking the researchers for uncovering that flaw and worked on improving stability. No, just kidding. They shouted at the researchers and asked them to stop, which they eventually did.
I felt back then that this community had a very unhealthy relationship with the quality of their software and the work of security researchers.
A few years ago a team of researchers tried to use a feature attribute flag in BGP. Their experiment caused an important BGP software to crash.
The BGP community reacted by thanking the researchers for uncovering that flaw and worked on improving stability. No, just kidding. They shouted at the researchers and asked them to stop, which they eventually did.
I felt back then that this community had a very unhealthy relationship with the quality of their software and the work of security researchers.
Sources: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2018-December/0984... https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-January/09876... https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-January/09918... https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-January/09914...