On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:42:00PM +0100, Thor-Henrik Kvandahl wrote:
Hi Matthew.
Can I congratulate with a son or daughter now ?
Here are some ideas to a future Task Force.
I have some ideas about consistency in the Ripe Whois DB and in the LIRs own assignment files/DB, and also in between them. If we want to come up with some tools/hints for LIR's to keep on top of their entries, I suggest that we also include tools/hints to check the consistency between the LIRs own assignment files/DB and the Ripe Whois DB. One way to do this is to download the inetnum db from ftp.ripe.net, extract the LIRs inetnums, do a consistency check of the inetnums, and finally do a consistency check between the inetnums and the assignment files/DB (and why not do a consistency check between the inetnums and all customer routes ?).
I guess there are not many LIRs doing this today (except us). The drawback with this solution is that we have to download the whole inetnum db (12,5Mb) and extract all our inetnums.
Here's an idea that belongs to the db-gw, but it is related to the idea described above: To ease the load on the RIPE NCC ftp/whois server and our servers, any LIR should be able to request an automatic extract every 24 hours of their allocated blocks.
This command will extract all more specific objects under 148.122/16: whois -h whois.ripe.net -F -r -T inetnum -M 148.122/16 Xystein Nerhus, KPNQwest Norway