FRR 7.1 CentOS 7.6.1810 With this in staticd.conf ip route 10.1.0.0/16 Null0 everything in 10.1.0.0/16 gets blackholed even if there is a more specific route. Is this normal behaviour? If so, is there a way to turn off recursive? In vtysh: # show ip route Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP, O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP, T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP, F - PBR, f - OpenFabric, > - selected route, * - FIB route, q - queued route, r - rejected route S>* 10.1.0.0/16 [1/0] unreachable (blackhole), 00:07:41 S> 10.1.1.0/24 [1/0] via 10.1.2.1 (recursive), 00:07:41 * unreachable, 00:07:41 C>* 10.1.2.0/24 is directly connected, eth0, 00:06:59 From bash: # ip r s|grep hole blackhole 10.1.0.0/16 proto 196 metric 20 blackhole 10.1.1.0/24 proto 196 metric 20