db and routing gurus, Since there have been people complaining about the size of the database that they need to transfer every day to just update their access-lists, we have made a little script that will split the database into several pieces, one file per object type in the database. This script will run every night at 20:00, so please make sure that if you retrieve one of these files that you do it after 20:00. We did not want to add it to the update procedure of the database straightaway, since that is already overloaded with side effects. Please check the date on the first line if you are not quite sure you have the latest copy. The date line and copyright notice have been copied to all seperate files. The seperate files can be found on ftp.ripe.net:/ripe/dbase/split. Below is the current directory contents. All files are compressed, but since our ftp server compresses and uncompresses on the fly, there is not really a difference. -Marten % ls -lg ~ftp/ripe/dbase/split -rw-r--r-- 1 root dbase 7301 May 12 16:46 ripe.db.aut-num.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root dbase 1235 May 12 16:45 ripe.db.bdry-gw.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root dbase 173800 May 12 16:46 ripe.db.domain.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root dbase 618303 May 12 16:46 ripe.db.inetnum.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root dbase 737450 May 12 16:45 ripe.db.person.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root dbase 883 May 12 16:45 ripe.db.rout-pr.Z