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Maintenance announcement
by Trudy Prins 15 May '06

15 May '06

[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear Colleagues, On Thursday, 18 May 2006 the following services will be unavailable from 05:00 - 06:00 GMT: - RIPE Whois Test Database - Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) Server - Routing Registry Consistency Check (RRCC) Database These services will be unavailable while we perform important server maintenance work. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please e-mail: <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Trudy Prins User Support Coordinator Software Engineering Department

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whois update service was paused
by Trudy Prins 11 May '06

11 May '06

[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear Colleagues, Yesterday, we deployed several bug fixes for the whois server software. The fixes should improve ORGANISATION object name handling. During the work, the whois update service was paused for around two hours. We apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please e-mail <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Trudy Prins User Support Coordinator Software Engineering Department

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clients statistics
by md＠Linux.IT 10 May '06

10 May '06

I'd like to see published on the RIPE web site statistics about the -V parameter used by whois clients to identify themselves to the server. Does this need a formal proposal or is something which NCC staff can just implement quickly? -- ciao, Marco

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Announcement Routing Registry Training Courses
by RIPE NCC Training Services 09 May '06

09 May '06

Dear Colleagues The RIPE NCC Training Services Department invites you to register for one of our upcoming Routing Registry Training Courses: Date: Friday 4 August 2006 Time: 0900 - 1700 Location: Warsaw, Poland And Date: Friday 1 September 2006 Time: 0900 - 1700 Location: Reykjavik, Iceland The main objective of the "Routing Registry Training Course" is to familiarise the LIRs with the features of the Routing Registry, while introducing the relevant tools and services of the RIPE NCC. The course also offers practical exercises. OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED IN THE COURSE: - Routing Registry as a part of the RIPE Whois Database and the Internet Routing Registry (IRR) - Specifying routing policies using (RPSL) Routing Policy Specification Language and the RtConfig tool - IRRToolSet - Routing Information Service (RIS) - Routing Registry Consistency Check Project Please note that this is an advanced course. It will: - NOT teach the basics of routing - NOT teach the basics of RIPE Database operations - NOT describe how to receive Internet resources from the RIPE NCC - NOT describe how to operate a Local Internet Registry (LIR) The target audience of the course are technical staff of LIRs: e.g. network operators, engineers etc. This course is not intended for administrative or management staff (e.g. Hostmasters) . It is assumed that all attendees will be familiar with Border Gateway Protocol routing and with the RIPE Database (i.e. creating/modifying objects). This course is based on interactive exercises in a local network set-up. Please bring your laptops equipped with the following: - A working Ethernet card, - Three meters of Ethernet cable, - A secure connection client, - A web browser. Please be prepared to share your laptop (or at least allow another attendee to "look over your shoulder") if necessary. The course is free of charge. We provide lunch and printed training materials. We do not cover any of your travel expenses or accommodation. We give all of our training courses in English. You can find more information about the course at: http://www.ripe.net/training/rr/ How to register: --------------------- You can register up to two people from your LIR for each course. (If there are places left nearer the time of the course, you can register more people). To register for this course, you can either use the LIR Portal at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/training/course-list.html Or the online registration form on our website: http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/trainingform.pl.cgi If you have any questions, send an e-mail to <training(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Rumy Kanis Training Services Manager RIPE NCC

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RE: [db-wg] Draft Minutes of the RIPE 52 DB-WG meeting
by Nigel Titley 04 May '06

04 May '06

> No, after Manchester the agreement was to return the irt > record relevant > to the queried ip/network. > This is subtly different from the behaviour of -c, which may return a > less specific inetnum object if the irt record is referenced by it. And this, if I recall correctly was, at the heart of the argument in Istanbul Nigel

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RIPE 52 Draft Minutes of the DB WG meeting (2nd Draft)
by Nigel Titley 04 May '06

04 May '06

Dear All, Well, I'm quite gratified that people actually read the minutes. Usually I circulate them on the mailing list and get no response at all. I think I've folded in most of the corrections and attach a 2nd version. Thanks to those who have made factual corrections. I published the minutes as quickly as I could so we could get them correct while things were fresh in our minds, hence the somewhat unpolished look. Once we've got the content right I'll do a final polish. All the best Nigel <<DB-minutes.txt>>

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updated RIPE Whois Database User Manual
by Trudy Prins 04 May '06

04 May '06

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the publication of an updated RIPE Whois Database User Manual. ripe-375 RIPE Whois Database User Manual: Getting Started The content has been revised and updated and we have improved the wording to make it clearer. We have also added extra information about 'webupdates'. You can find the document at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/db-start.html Regards, Trudy Prins User Support Coordinator Software Engineering Department RIPE NCC

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yet another irrtoolset replacement, 1.0
by md＠Linux.IT 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

I released version 1.0 of my routers configuration generator. It can generate the complete BGP configuration (neighbor statements, route maps, prefix and as-path lists) of peering or customer-facing routers using RPSL data, a local configuration file and a configuration template based on the popular Template::Toolkit perl package. Currently I only provide an IOS configuration template, but it should be easy to write one for JUNOS (patches are welcome!). I know that it's being used in production by several ISPs in the RIPE and APNIC region, so if you are not satisfacted by irrtoolset I think it's worth some consideration. It can be downloaded from http://www.linux.it/~md/software/rpsltool-1.0.tgz and is free software released under the terms of the GPL. (I think that I advertised it enough, so future releases will be announced on the project mailing list.) Major changes since the last public release: Modularized and cleaned up the code. Added the routesdiff program (formerly part of my cisco-tools package), to show which routes are actually not being accepted from a peer. Added the testpeerfilter program, to test the effect of a filter on a peer without actually loading it on the router. Added the nagpeer program, to automatically generate reports of bugs in the RPSL objects published by a peer. Added the rpslexpand, to quickly perform RPSL expansion from the command line. Added the findextraobjs program, useful to identify obsolete entries in peers configuration files. Added documentation. -- ciao, Marco

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RIPE52 DB-WG Draft Agenda V3
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Dear DB-WG folks, Chairpersons, Meeting! Here is the 3rd draft of an agenda for the DB-WG next week at RIPE52 in Istanbul. New since V2: item G. For time slot allocation please refer to the most up-to-date meeting plan at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-52/meeting-plan.html Best regards, Wilfried. ________________________________________________________________________ A. Administrative Matters - scribe - list of participants - agenda - minutes - "remote participation" coordination (if needed) B. DB Update (N.N., RIPE NCC) [~15 min] C. ENUM delegations (input from DNS-WG, RIPE NCC) [~15 min] D. Proposal to retire CRYPT-PW (Peter K., denic.de + WW144) [~10 min] . PDP proposal E. "48.6 RIPE NCC" (return irt: by default) revisited (RIPE NCC) [~15 min] F. Modify checks for creation of route: (input from Routing-WG) [~10 min] . Brief report on SIDR BoF, IETF65 (tbc, N.N.) G. DB issues when recycling AS Numbers (Leo V., RIPE NCC) [~15 min] H. Client software to use the RoutingRegistry (Rüdiger V., T-Com) [~10 min] . What tools are needed/used to feed router configurations from the databases? Status and perspectives of available software Y. Input from other WGs Z. AOB

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RIPE Database query server is up
by Katie Petrusha 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear colleagues, RIPE Whois Database query server is up. The outage was caused by a flaw in the failover setup of whois servers which we are working on. Sorry for any inconvenience. -- Katie Petrusha RIPE NCC

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