Hi, The RIPE NCC are pleased to announce the release of a new public version of Asused - this is Version 3.52. Asused is a tool to check and summarise address space registered in the RIPE database. For a given list of allocations the tool prints various information concerning the allocations and the assignments they contain. The software is written in standard Perl 5 and uses several Perl modules. It was written and tested on BSD/OS 3.1, but should work with any modern UNIX-like operating system. All the files needed are stored in this file: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/asused-3.52.tar.gz or alternatively, just: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/asused-latest.tar.gz You will need to use gzip and tar to extract them, then please follow the instructions in the README file. The changes since Version 3.51 are: * No longer designated as beta software. * Fixed problem with huge free address space reports, caused by bug in the Whois DB - "-Tin" returns rev-srv: A.B.C.D fields as well. * Fixed problem with RIPEWhois.pm module, which didn't return anything on some Linux'es. Was reported several times, visible effect was: FATAL ERROR: ERROR: 10.65.0.0/19 No allocation object in DB, inetnum found * Fixed small compatability problem - some systems don't let to use IO::Socket::INET directly, so, turned that into "use IO::Socket". * Put the CPAN IO module IO-1.20.tar.gz into extra/ directory, as some Perl distributions come with outdated modules and CPAN suggests perl5.6.0 as an update :> * Added --free flag to show only free address space list. * Produce a warning if a registry doesn't have mnt-lower attribute on it's allocation. * Fixed the case that --status didn't report assignments with missed status lines and gave incorrect balance. Thanks to the following people for bug reports and suggestions: Elmar K. Bins Jean-Francois Stenuit Dominic Mitchell Daniel N. Rasmussen Johannes Dagemark Timur Bakeyev of RIPE NCC did the programming. We are keen to receive your further feedback on this software - please address your comments and/or suggestions to me. Cheers, Maldwyn Morris maldwyn@ripe.net Software Manager RIPE NCC