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OSPF External E2 Default Route Is Missed

Hi All!
 
I can't solve one problem with external default route in the standard OSPF area. I have three OSPF-routers: R1, R2, R4. R1 knows the default route which are distributed from IBGP to OSPF. Also R1 has a neighborship with R2 and line "default-information originate" in the OSPF configuration.
 
This is OSPF configiguration from R1:
 
router ospf 2 vrf internet
 router-id 10.24.42.1
 redistribute bgp 28769 subnets route-map internet-to-ospf
 passive-interface default
 no passive-interface TenGigabitEthernet0/0/0
 no passive-interface TenGigabitEthernet0/2/0
 default-information originate
 distribute-list route-map internet-from-ospf in
 
Te0/0/0 and Te0/2/0 are links with R2 and both have OSPF enabled.
 
This is the part of "sh ip ospf 1 database external" output from R2:
 
Type-5 AS External Link States
 
  Routing Bit Set on this LSA in topology Base with MTID 0
  LS age: 855
  Options: (No TOS-capability, DC, Upward)
  LS Type: AS External Link
  Link State ID: 0.0.0.0 (External Network Number )
  Advertising Router: 10.24.42.1
  LS Seq Number: 80000006
  Checksum: 0x635B
  Length: 36
  Network Mask: /0
Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
MTID: 0 
Metric: 1 
Forward Address: 0.0.0.0
External Route Tag: 3489689697
 
So R2 knows this route by OSPF and installs it to the routing table:
 
O*E2  0.0.0.0/0 [110/1] via 80.240.47.61, 01:17:29, TenGigabitEthernet0/3/0
                [110/1] via 80.240.47.57, 01:17:29, TenGigabitEthernet0/1/0
 
Then R2 has a neighborship with R3 (R1 and R3 aren't neighbors).
R3 has the same LSA-5 in it's LSDB:
 
  LS age: 1096
  Options: (No TOS-capability, DC, Upward)
  LS Type: AS External Link
  Link State ID: 0.0.0.0 (External Network Number )
  Advertising Router: 10.24.42.1
  LS Seq Number: 80000006
  Checksum: 0x635B
  Length: 36
  Network Mask: /0
Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
MTID: 0 
Metric: 1 
Forward Address: 0.0.0.0
External Route Tag: 3489689697
 
But R3 doesn't install default route to the rouing table.
 
There are a lot of other routes in the R3's routing table throughout R2 exist and default route only was missed .
 
What is wrong?
 
Thank you for any help!
 
Best regard,
Konstantin V.
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I found out that problem had been in the "down bit". It was set to "1" by loop prevention mechanism because OSPF has been configured with the VRF. One of the ways to solve it is configure router OSPF with "capability vrf-lite". Wonderful article: https://aitaseller.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/mpls-layer-3-vpns/

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