Hi, The RIPE NCC are pleased to announce the release of a second public beta version of Asused. 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 main changes have been to tidy the code and to merge the code ( and version number ) for our internal tool with that of the public version. The only part missing from the public version is now that which performs checks using information that is proprietary to our members. We have also fixed some bugs in the software found by internal and external users: * Free space at the beginning of an allocation was not handled correctly * Some overlapping assignments were being missed. * Assigned address space was not always calculated correctly. * Overlaps caused more than 100% usage. Thanks for the bug reports. 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-3.5.tar.gz You will need to use gzip and tar to extract them, then please follow the instructions in the README file. We are keen to receive your feedback on this software - please address your comments and/or suggestions to me. Cheers, Maldwyn Morris maldwyn@ripe.net Software Manager RIPE NCC