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It seems like the mirroring of ripe db at Merit is broken. Can someone from Merit look into this? Alex Bligh ([email protected]) on January 3: > Here's a couple of operational questions for those who build > filters from IRRdb's. > > Background: > > * peval / rpsl.merit.edu *may* be incorrectly evaluating > RIPE database entries currently - but this isn't my main > thrust. The scary thing is suddenly what I'm 99% sure used > to work (expanding AS Macros) now silently fails if they > are in RIPE. [for details see the end] > > * I'm not saying the server is broken (I guess it has something to > do with the 'server is running at low priority' line), but if I had > this in an automatic filter generating run, it would generate > the RADB stuff just fine, and silently filter out all RIPE based > peerings. Even if it's working perfectly correctly, the questions > are still interesting, at least to me. > > Questions: > > * Does anyone actually do build filters without running > their own complete database mirror, i.e. do they rely real > time on a database working. If so, which one? > > * Does anyone let this config their routers automatically? To peers > customers, transits, or all three? Or do you rely on humans to > reinstall the lists once autogenerated? > > * If it's just a fact of life that occasionally this thing turns up duff > data, and if people are in general doing automatic installation, what > data validation heuristics are used? > > I'll summarize to the list any off-list replies that are interesting. > > -- > > Alex Bligh > GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks) > > Boring details: > > [ If anyone from merit/isi is interested this is peval (RAToolSet v4.3.1) > binaries from the isi site running on Solaris 2.5.1 and I'm > sure it was working a little while ago. > > I can't get peval to produce anything sensible at the moment > for anything in a database other than RADB. For instance: > > opal[amb].158$ ./peval -no-as -T all AS-EUNET > Whois: Open rpsl.merit.edu, 43, RADB,MCI,RIPE,ANS,CANET > Whois: WriteQuery -V RAToolSet4.3.1 --single --silent -k -r -s > RADB,MCI,RIPE,ANS,CANET -u -T as-set AS-EUNET > > Whois: Response > % RIPEdb(3.0.0a13) with ISI RPSL extensions > > % Server is running at low priority for -M, -m and -k queries > > % No entries found in RADB, MCI, RIPE, ANS and CANET database. > > NOT ANY > > A 'whois -h whois.ripe.net AS-EUNET' demonstrates that this isn't > in fact the case. > > Works for anything in RADB, including my macros which are in both. > > As I said, I'm not saying the server is broken (I guess it has something to > do with the 'server is running at low priority' line), but if I had > this in an automatic filter generating run, it would generate > the RADB stuff just fine, and silently filter out all RIPE based > networks > > ] > > -- > Alex Bligh > GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks) > Cengiz -- Cengiz Alaettinoglu Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/~cengiz University of Southern California
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