August 1993 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

beta release new database software
by Marten Terpstra 20 Aug '93

20 Aug '93

People, I have made a distribution of the new software. It includes most of the stuff you would need for indexing and updating a RIPE like database. For those of you who have been playing with the 2 early releases, here are some of the changes: - minor change to key generation routine (to allow certain chars) - dbupdate can now be used as an email responder - more stuff made configurable, more configuration options - some general bug fixes - a bit more documentation (I know, still nowhere near perfect) You will need some familiarity with the RIPE database structure to get this stuff running without much hastle. I have tried making it into a read, install and run package, but it is not quite really. Please understand that it IS still beta, and there may well be bugs everywhere, and it may not be as configurable as you would like, but I'm working on that. I just wanted to get this thing out so that you could play with it a bit, and see if you like it. If you do not have some time to spare to install and try to understand it, I would advide not to get the stuff just yet, but wait for the first real release (expected some time around the RIPE meeting). This release does not understand guarded fields yet, all hooks are in, just some code missing. The indexer and whoisd have been tested by some people already and did not show any major bugs. The update mechanism is not tested too well yet, so try building some test databases first to see how that all works. Most of the working and installation is described in 2 files, INSTALL and README. README should explain enough to get you started, experiment after that. You can find the stuff on: ncc.ripe.net:dbase-beta/dbase-beta.tar.Z Directory dbase-beta is unreadable, but you CAN fetch the file and note that this is NOT on ftp.ripe.net. Oh, you need PERL to run all this stuff ... Enjoy, -Marten

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RIPE Database beta-software trials ...
by Marten Terpstra 16 Aug '93

16 Aug '93

[Apologies for all who received this message on the dns-wg list already, that was obviously a mistake ... -Marten] Dear all, We finally have some beta software running at the NCC for the database, and we would like you to test some things. We have created an empty test RIPE database on ncc.ripe.net running with the new whois daemon. You can send in updates to: testdb(a)ripe.net It will be processed and incorporated in a test database running on ncc.ripe.net (also a whois daemon running on that database). You should receive a ack mail back (to the Reply-To field, or From: is no Reply-To field present) and you should be able to find it in the whois server immediately. Acks should be sent to you within minutes. You can also delete objects in that test database, by simply adding a delete: line to an object. So, person: Marten Terpstra address: RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) address: Kruislaan 409 address: NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam address: Netherlands phone: +31 20 592 5065 fax-no: +31 20 592 5090 e-mail: marten(a)ripe.net nic-hdl: MT2 changed: marten(a)ripe.net 930503 source: RIPE delete: just try and delete this thing should delete this object in the database, if all fields are the same as in the database. The ordering of fields does not matter, just as long as attributes with the same name are in the same order, ie in the object above you cannot change the place of two "address:" fields. Also the place of the delete field does not matter, it can be anywhere in the object. Updating should be very quick, ack mails should be sent to you within minutes. Please try some stuff and see what happens. Comments on the format of the ack mail are also appreciated. Currently verbose ack is default ie you get at least a one line ack per object you send in, and the full object if there were errors or warnings. If you send in objects with a source other than RIPE it should complain that this is an unknown source and should refuse the update. -Marten PS All requests are already properly logged so be careful with those deletes ;-) PPS The syntax checker for this test database is VERY strict, simply because there is no manual intervention from the NCC any longer. It may well be that existing objects in the real database are no longer accepted ;-)

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RIPE database software beta sites needed
by RIPE Database Management 04 Aug '93

04 Aug '93

Folks, Finally parts of the new RIPE database software are ready for some beta testing. I would like a not too big number of sites/people that are willing to run some tests on the new software, and actually have some time to spend on this to make themselves known to me. I have created a new (temporary) mailing list <db-beta(a)ripe.net> which will deal with all the beta-testing on the software. That is where I will put details on where to get the software and will send bug fixes. If you are willing to participate in the beta testing, please send a mail to db-beta-request(a)ripe.net or simply reply to this message. If you just want to see what is going on with the beta testing, you are welcome to join the list as well. Just hope that not all of you will be just listening in ;-) Suggestions/comments welcome. -Marten PS Some people already indicated they wanted to join the list, so currently I have the following people on the db-beta list: Wilfried Woeber <Wilfried.Woeber(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at> # db-wg chairman Tony Bates <tony> Marten Terpstra <marten> GARR NIS <info(a)nis.garr.it>

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