Dear Colleagues, The data file and index file of the aut-num objects were corrupted this morning. This caused the aut-num objects not to be available. We regenerated the indexes. However, we discovered that some aut-num objects were missing. Thus, we rebuilt the data file using a back-up copy and generated new indexes. The aut-num objects file was reliable until 00:00 hours UTC on Monday, 3 November. The whois service was reliable again at 17:00 hours UTC this evening and the ftp copy of the aut-num objects was valid again at 20:00 hours UTC tonight. We are aware that this may have caused you some inconvenience; we therefore fixed the problem as fast as we could. If you use the data in the aut-num objects file as a basis for build routing tables or any similar purpose, we recommend that you obtain a new copy of this data from our ftp-site. Only the aut-num objects were affected this morning. The other database objects appeared not to be affected. If you have anymore questions, please contact <ripe-dbm@ripe.net>. Regards, Ambrose Magee ____________________________ RIPE Database Administration.