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IRT object
by Andrei Robachevsky 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Dear Colleagues, The irt object has been implemented and we put the new software on our test whois server (please see http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/testdb.html). We also took liberty to make some modifications to the original proposal (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/db-wg/20010701-20020101/msg00036.html). Namely: - an "irt-nfy:" attribute is now optional/multiple/inevrse key in the irt object. It specifies an e-mail address used to send notifications whenever a reference to the object is added or removed. We thought it would be very useful from security prospective. - a name of an irt object should start with "IRT-" prefix reserved for this type of object. This will eliminate possible confusion, such as mixing up with mntner. We have created some object to play with: irt: IRT-TEST inetnum: 172.18.0.0 - 172.25.255.255 So you may try: $ whois -h test-whois IRT-TEST $ whois -h test-whois -i mnt-irt IRT-TEST $ whois -h test-whois -i irt-nfy bitbucket(a)ripe.net $ whois -h test-whois 172.18.10.1 $ whois -h test-whois -c 172.18.10.1 The irt objects are not created automatically, but are forwarded to RIPE Database Administration (ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net). But this restriction does not apply to the TEST database, so you may try to create one yourself. Have a nice weekend, Regards, Andrei Robachevsky DB Group Manager RIPE NCC

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Status of IRT object
by Gabriella Paolini 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

Dear all, which is the status of IRT object? Is the trial implementation available? This example shows again the need for a specific object. If someone uses whois information from cyberabuse.org, as many times people does, that information is wrong, because ciberabuse guys used Admin-c email without considering all other informations in inetnum object and in role object. Thanks and regards, Gabriella Paolini INFN-GARR [ Informations about 193.204.17.211 ] IP range : 193.204.16.0 - 193.204.23.255 Network name : UNIBAS-NET AS number : AS137 Infos : Universita' Degli Studi Di Basilicata Infos : Centro Interfacolta' Servizi Informatici E Telematici - Cisit Phone number : +39 06 49914352 Country : IT Abuse contact : enzo.valente(a)infn.it Source : RIPE right information are inetnum: 193.204.16.0 - 193.204.23.255 netname: UNIBAS-NET descr: Universita' degli Studi di Basilicata descr: Centro Interfacolta' Servizi Informatici e Telematici - CISIT country: IT admin-c: EV182-RIPE tech-c: GL965-RIPE tech-c: GM976-RIPE ... remarks: To notify abuse mailto: cert(a)garr.it remarks: Multiple lan of university departments remarks: GARR - Italian academic and research network mnt-by: GARR-LIR ... role: GARR LIR ... trouble: To notify abuse mailto: cert(a)garr.it trouble: Information at http://www.lir.garr.it/ ... person: Enzo Valente address: INFN - Dipartimento di Fisica address: Universita' La Sapienza address: Piazzale Aldo Moro,2 address: I-00185 Roma address: Italy phone: +39 06 49914352 fax-no: +39 06 4957697 e-mail: Enzo.Valente(a)infn.it ...

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RIPE robot response
by Antonia López 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Dear all, Every time I update or add an object to the RIPE database, the robot give back an e-mail like that (although I send my e-mail with non formatted text). <<FAILED: >> The action is made, then why this e-mail?? Thanks. Antonia Lopez Serrano

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RE: RIPE robot response
by Boyan Krosnov 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

You sent a mime message with two parts part one is text/html the other is text/plain. The robot cannot parse html so it sees it as plain text and tries to process it. It then fails, as could be expected. Then it processes the text/plain part of your message, which succeedes. Never send html formated messages to the robot or it will spit errors at you. If you are using a MS exchange server you can make it send messages to all addresses @ripe.net in plain text format. Drop me a private e-mail for the exact configuration. Regards, CCNP Boyan Krosnov Network Administrator Lirex Net phone: +359-2-91815 -----Original Message----- From: Antonia Lopez [mailto:antonia.lopez@abrared.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:18 PM To: 'db-wg(a)ripe.net' Subject: RIPE robot response Dear all, Every time I update or add an object to the RIPE database, the robot give back an e-mail like that (although I send my e-mail with non formatted text). <<FAILED: >> The action is made, then why this e-mail?? Thanks. Antonia Lopez Serrano

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Re: RIPE robot response
by Janos Zsako 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

> From owner-db-wg(a)ripe.net Fri Jan 4 16:35:03 2002 > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Antonia_L=F3pez?= <antonia.lopez(a)abrared.com> Dear Antonia, This is probably because your mailer is cofigured to send the message BOTH in plaintext AND HTML (see below). The plaintext is interpreted correctly by the robot, while the HTML text is flaged with errors. Also, please note that you should change your password, as you forwarded it in cleartext to the list... :(( Best regards, Janos > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > Content-Type: text/plain; > Dear all, > > Every time I update or add an object to the RIPE database, the robot give > back an e-mail like that (although I send my e-mail with non formatted > text). > > <<FAILED: >> > > The action is made, then why this e-mail?? > Content-Type: text/html; > Dear all, > > > Every time I update or add an object = > to the RIPE database, the robot give back an e-mail like that (although = > I send my e-mail with non formatted text).

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RE: route object check-up
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

>while updating our database we've noticed some >inconsistency in ripe-db route object: 80.82.178.0/20 >so does anybody know why net and prefix combination for >route object could be invalid ? When the starting address is not properly aligned on a power of 2 for the block-size. The hint you are receiving, as attached below, is an indication for this, i.e. - 80.82.178.0 is only properly aligned for 2 consecutive Class Cs, 80.82.178.0 and 80.82.179.0), - whereas for a /20 (16 consecutive Class Cs) the proper alignment would be 80.82.176.0 Btw, the same issue might eventually arise when someone tries to do an aggregated announcement on the routing layer for this block. Possible solutions: - move the address block to the proper alignment - partiton the block into a set of smaller, consecutive, aligned chunks - try to register the address as a range (although this might trigger the same error message, depending on implementation of checks...) I guess the older versions of the software were less picky than the new implementation is... >With respect, >--- >RIPN Registry center >----- > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Update [FAILED] > >dbupdate: >80.82.178.0/20 is an invalid net and prefix combination:- >length 20 (mask 255.255.240.0) is outside the range of 80.82.178.0 >Possible values with these combinates are: >based on length 80.82.176.0/20 >based on prefix 80.82.178.0/23 Regards, _________________________________:_____________________________________ Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at UniVie Computer Center - ACOnet : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : RIPE-DB: WW144, PGP keyID 0xF0ACB369 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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route object check-up
by Oleg N. Bondarev 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

Dear all, while updating our database we've noticed some inconsistency in ripe-db route object: 80.82.178.0/20 so does anybody know why net and prefix combination for route object could be invalid ? With respect, --- RIPN Registry center ----- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Update [FAILED] dbupdate: 80.82.178.0/20 is an invalid net and prefix combination:- length 20 (mask 255.255.240.0) is outside the range of 80.82.178.0 Possible values with these combinates are: based on length 80.82.176.0/20 based on prefix 80.82.178.0/23

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Creating route-objects
by Ionut Murgoci 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

Hi, Could somebody tell me how can i create a route-object for an assigned IP class in RPSL format? Thx, Ionut.

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RIPE Database Updates Off-line 2001-12-08
by RIPE Database Administration 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

RIPE Database Users: The RIPE database will be operating in query-only mode from 10:00 to 17:00 tommorrow, Saturday, 8 December 2001. Any updates that arrive during this time will be queued, and processed when the database returns to normal operation. All queries will be answered normally by our secondary server. We are adding a new disk to the server due to warnings reported by our SCSI controller. No data has been lost or damaged; this is simply a precaution. Apologies for any inconveniences. Sincerely, -- Shane Kerr RIPE Database Administration

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mnt-routes in allocation objects
by Sabrina Waschke 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

Dear all, This is to inform you that the RIPE NCC Registration Services will update all inetnum objects representing allocations made by the RIPE NCC to Local IRs (status: ALLOCATED PA") adding a mnt-routes attribute. We will use the maintainer specified in the mnt-lower attribute of the particular inetnum object. We will only add a mnt-routes attribute to allocation objects that have exactly one mnt-lower attribute (*). The updates will start on Monday, 10th December 2001. Until the introduction of RPSL there was no mnt-routes attribute. Adding a mnt-routes attribute to the inetnum object representing your allocation will enable you to create route objects matching the exact size of your allocation object. (You might have to pass other authorisations.) For a graphical overview of "Route Object Creation - Getting Authorisation from IP Space" please see: <http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/faq/database/route-creation-IP-space-c heck.html>. For more information about route object please read: <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/databaseref-manual.html#1.2.15> and <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/databaseref-manual.html#3.6.5>. (*) In general: If you want to update an object maintained by the RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT please send a message to <lir-help(a)ripe.net> including your registry ID and the revised object. Please note that we only accept these requests from official LIR contacts who are registered in our RIPE NCC internal registry files. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact <lir-help(a)ripe.net> including your registry ID. Kind regards, Sabrina Waschke -- o------------------------------------------o | Sabrina Waschke sabrina(a)ripe.net | | Registration Services Operations Manager | | | | RIPE NCC tel +31 20 535 4444 | | www.ripe.net fax +31 20 535 4445 | o------------------------------------------o

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