I'm running BIRD 1.3.4 with JUNOS and I ran into the issue of "netmask 0.0.0.0" was seen by JUNOS as it's not being sent by BIRD on a OSPF point-to-point link per RFC spec but JUNOS perform strict check on it. 

There seemed to be quite a bit of discussions about this online [1][2] and I'm wondering if anyone got a better alternatives then switching to link broadcast mode?

I also looked at BIRD code, it seemed like someone have applied a patch for a "ptp netmask" option on in April 17 to work around this issue but upgrading BIRD is not an option at this point.

[1] https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&enablesaml=yes&id=KB23533&max-yv=1&cat=M_SERIES&actp=LIST&smlogin=true

[2] http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Junos-and-Junosphere/ospf-point-to-point-interface-type-on-ethernet/td-p/39375

thanks,