Junos OS

Hello,
Good day.

We found there are some prefixes with wrong "Validation State" in one routing instance.

Prefix: 5.105.41.0/24
ROA: no record, so the status for ROV should be "UNKNOWN"

Model: mx2008
Junos: 18.4R3-S10

AAA_U.inet.0: 901589 destinations, 904074 routes (898069 active, 0 holddown, 3581 hidden)
5.105.41.0/24 (1 entry, 1 announced)
*BGP Preference: 170/-100
Next hop type: Router, Next hop index: 1286
Address: 0x4140380ec
Next-hop reference count: 1795312
Source: xx.xx.xx.xx
Next hop: xx.xx.xx.xx via xe-3/1/0.0, selected
Session Id: 0x273
State: <Active Ext>
Peer AS: aaaa
Age: 2d 12:05:44 Metric: 100
Validation State: invalid
Task: BGP_aaaa.xx.xx.xx.xx
Announcement bits (4): 0-KRT 2-BGP_RT_Background 3-Resolve tree 33 5-RT
AS path: xxxxx 12389 39238 39238 39238 49392 398343 I
Communities: 17152:2
Accepted
Localpref: 99
Router ID: yy.yy.yy.yy


BBB_U.inet.0: 881139 destinations, 883648 routes (879860 active, 0 holddown, 1295 hidden)
5.105.41.0/24 (1 entry, 1 announced)
*BGP Preference: 170/-91
Next hop type: Router, Next hop index: 1271
Address: 0x67d530c
Next-hop reference count: 1756674
Source: zz.zz.zz.zz
Next hop: zz.zz.zz.zz via xe-3/1/9.0, selected
Session Id: 0x1c1
State: <Active Ext>
Peer AS: bbbb
Age: 2d 4:13:26 Metric: 100
Validation State: unknown
Task: BGP_bbbb.zz.zz.zz.zz
Announcement bits (4): 1-KRT 3-BGP_RT_Background 4-Resolve tree 8 5-RT
AS path: bbbb 31133 39238 39238 39238 49392 398343 I
Communities: 17152:1
Accepted
Localpref: 90
Router ID: ww.ww.ww.ww


All validation sessions status are UP.

Would you please share the possible cause?

Thanks a lot.
Best regards,
James

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James Cheng
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