April 2008 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

<auto-dbm@ripe.net> is slow this afternoon.
by RIPE Database Administration 16 May '18

16 May '18

Dear Colleagues, Because of a very high level of use this afternoon, the response time of <auto-dbm(a)ripe.net> is longer than normal. I have made contact with those who are responsible and I expect the situation to improve as the machine works through the queue. Please be patient. Obviously we at the RIPE NCC Database Group are continuously working to make the performance of the database as good as possible. However, we cannot make improvements in zero time. We thank you for your co-operation up to now and we ask for your continued co-operation so that everyone receives the best possible service. If you have anymore questions, please contact <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Ambrose Magee ____________________________ RIPE Database Administration.

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RIPE56 DB-WG Draft Agenda V1
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Dear DB-WG folks, Chairpersons, "Meeting"! This is the (very rough) 1st draft of an agenda for the DB-WG at RIPE56 in Berlin, May 2008. For time slot allocations please refer to the most up-to-date meeting plan at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-56/meeting-plan.html Attention please: this time the DB-WG meeting is scheduled for *Thursday* at 4 PM in the afternoon! Please note that, for our convenience, the time slot map becomes clickable for those sessions which have already submitted a (draft) agenda! Best regards, Wilfried. ________________________________________________________________________ A. Administrative Matters . Welcome . select scribe . finalise agenda . approval of minutes from RIPE 55 . review of action list B. Data Base Update (N.N., RIPE NCC) [~20 min] C. Follow-Up on [~30 min] . Task-Force on Data Protection Issues [t.b.c.] . DB-Terms and Conditions [t.b.c.] . Contact Data Quality/Requirements Discussion [t.b.c.] . Resource Certification Project [t.b.c.] D. DB-Software Developmen Activities [~20 min] . modification proposals (maintainer required, ...) . retiring rev-srv: attribute Y. Input from other WGs and TFs Z. AOB ________________________________________________________________________

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A request for more information about "person" objects
by Searcher Wang 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

Dear DatabaseMaster: Thank you for reading my letter. I am a Ph.D student in Computer Science. Recently, I am working on how to validate the origins of BGP routes with the information exploited from RIRs. As well-known, the database of RIPE is famous for its accuracy. Thanks for the public access services of ripe database, I have built a prototype. However, some information of "person" objects that can be got from ftp://www.ripe.net has been taken out. I think you are trying to prevent spam. I do not intend to get the personal information of the person objects such as email, address and so on, but the relations among them are important for me. What I really want is the person objects' admin-c, tech-c, mnt-by attributes. I have done many experiments, in which there is a high false positive rate with my prototype. It seems that it is difficult to bypass this barrier. So I beg for your help to get more information about person objects. Could you please tell me how to get the entire information? Thanks for your reading again. Best Wishes! Sincerely Xiaoqiang <db-wg(a)ripe.net>

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Outage report for mail updates to the RIPE Database
by Katie Petrusha 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

[ Apologies for duplicate mails ] Dear colleagues, From approximately 14:15 (UTC) on Thursday, 17 April 2008 to 09:00 (UTC) on Friday, 18 April 2008, some e-mail update messages to the RIPE Database service, <auto-dbm(a)ripe.net>, were not processed due to a problem with our system. All the messages received by <auto-dbm(a)ripe.net> were stored on our mail server and the problem has now been resolved. All the saved update messages are currently being processed. If you sent an e-mail update to the RIPE Database service during this period, you will receive an acknowledgement message shortly. There is no need to re-send any update messages. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused. Regards, Katie Petrusha Senior Software Engineer RIPE NCC

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Call for agenda items, DB-WG Meeting during RIPE56, Berlin, DE
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Dear DB-WG folks, planning activities for the next RIPE Meeting - RIPE56 in Berlin - have already started, thus this call for agenda items. Please submit (to the WG list or to me personally) your item requests or suggest topics for discussion to be included in the draft agenda! (I plan to distribute the 1st version of the draft agenda in about one week from now.) Please note that the DataBase-WG meeting is, this time, scheduled for *Thursday* afternoon. The overall RIPE 56 meeting outline is already available at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-56/meeting-plan.html The list of plenary presentations and the session archive may eventually become available at [- this page does not exist yet -] http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-56/presentations/ or a different URL. See you soon in Berlin, Wilfried.

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Announcement: Maintenance on 12-13 April 2008
by James Aldridge 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC will migrate a number of servers to new racks at NIKHEF between 08:00 and 18:00 (UTC) on the following dates: - Saturday, 12 April 2008 - Sunday, 13 April 2008 Aspects of the following services will be affected at various times during the migration periods: - BGP peering sessions will be down - nikrtr.ripe.net - AS3333 (217.79.172.5; 195.69.144.69; 2001:7f8:1::a500:3333:1) - K-Root (AS25152) at AMS-IX, NL-IX and XPE - AS112 (AS112) at AMS-IX - RIS (AS12654) at AMS-IX, NL-IX and GN-IX - DNS services: - The AMS-IX/XPE/NL-IX K-Root instance and the AS112 server at AMS-IX will be unavailable - WWW/FTP/Hostcount/E-Learning - LIR-Portal - WHOIS: - Syncupdates of the RIPE Database will be down - Mail updates will be queued and executed after the maintenance - RIPE DB-related CGIs on WWW will be down - Test Traffic Measurements (tt01) We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. If you have any questions about this, please send an e-mail to <ops(a)ripe.net> Regards, James Aldridge Senior Systems Engineer, RIPE NCC

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