April 1994 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

Merit Routing Registry
by epg＠merit.edu 18 Apr '94

18 Apr '94

Merit is happy to announce the Merit Routing Registry. Whereas Merit designed and manages the PRDB (Policy Routing Data Base) for the NSFNET service, RIPE pioneered a policy routing registry for the European community. The RIPE Routing Registry is based on the document, RIPE-81. With RIPE's collaboration, Merit installed RIPE-81 software and then extended the policy descriptions in order to realize more complex policies. The Merit Routing Registry will be a companion registry to the RIPE Routing Registry and is intended to serve the community that is not served by RIPE. This is a new service and we consider ourselves still in the beta phase. Registrations may be basic policy descriptions defined in RIPE-81 or complex routing policy descriptions defined in the Extended Policy Syntax document by Chen, Gerich, Joncheray, and Yu. The Extended Policy Syntax document may be found on rrdb.merit.edu:pub/meritrr/policy_syntax.txt. Documentation for using the MeritRR can be found on rrdb.merit.edu:pub/meritrr. Merit and RIPE anticipate that the combined registries will provide a more comprehensive picture of the routing interactions in the Internet. We are working together to allow the two registries to appear like one virtual registry to the various tools that are developed. We welcome your comments on all aspects of this project. For more information, please respond to rradmin(a)rrdb.merit.edu. Elise Gerich, Merit Network, Inc. Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC

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Re: Corrupted data
by Tony Bates 15 Apr '94

15 Apr '94

Following on from the mail yesterday about errors in aut-num objects in the database. Please find a new set of database errors on ftp.ripe.net:ripe/dbase/errors/* -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 11:59 as-macro.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 5319 Apr 15 11:55 aut-num.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 11:58 bdry-gw.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 12:00 community.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 12:01 dom-prefix.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 103796 Apr 15 12:06 domain.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 58285 Apr 15 12:46 inetnum.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 320852 Apr 15 12:38 person.errors -rw-r--r-- 1 tony dbase 0 Apr 15 12:00 rout-pr.errors As you can see person has the most errors. Please can all (especialy local-irs take a look at these files and correct where possible. Here's a summary of the amount of errors over what is in the database. Object Number in DB Number in Error aut-num 322 11 domain 3222 354 inetnum 16107 176 person 16366 1072 Please look at these files. Remember many of the errors are where mandatoy fields are not in the object rather than syntax errors. The next round will be to start chasing people individually. Thanks, --Tony.

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Corrupted data
by Laurent Joncheray 14 Apr '94

14 Apr '94

Could you clean up these data? Some of the policies are not RIPE-81 compliant. Thanks. alc: reading file "/f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db" (RIPE-DB)... ERROR (201339): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ao: AS1853" ERROR (201348): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ai: AS1800 ANY" ERROR (201349): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ai: AS1880 ANY" ERROR (201368): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1755 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201369): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1883 200 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201382): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1880 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201395): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1880 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201396): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1883 200 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (201414): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*df: AS1755 100 AS1755 AS690" ERROR (203306): attribute value error in db file /f/rrdb/dbase-beta/data/ripe.db: "*ao: AS1755 AND AND NOT (AS1729)" ERROR (205269): object *am undefined alc: Printing stat for db RIPE-DB alc: ipblock: 16075 objects, 38766 count alc: autsys: 321 objects, 321 count -- Laurent Joncheray, E-Mail: lpj(a)merit.edu Merit Network Inc, 1071 Beal Avenue, Phone: +1 (313) 936 2065 Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Fax: +1 (313) 747 3745 "This is the end, Beautiful friend. This is the end, My only friend, the end" JM

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A ROUGH alternate proposal to CLNS DB for RIPE
by Susan Hares 06 Apr '94

06 Apr '94

Wilfried: I'm thrilled to see your response. The reason I proposed this change was to align it with the IP CIDR object. My hope was we could then leverage the IP CIDR work to quickly implement the CLNS. So, I am looking at implementation at RIPE NCC and MERIT. I would like to expand prtraceroute and whois servers to use the CLNS. The host.txt option is certainly open to question. I suggest we talk about the benefits of the proposal without this section. To discuss the "host.txt" section, I suggest we query the noop(a)merit.edu tuba(a)merit.edu lists to determine the distribution of the DNS NSAP object. If it is far enough along, then we should can this. Otherwise, it may be a very useful "bootstrapping" function to support. If you agree, I will send notes to this and the rare-clns-wg4 mail list. In the implementation these objects could be kept in a different sequence of files that could be easily cut when the DNS NSAP object is widely deployed. Again, many thanks for such a thought response! Sue Hares

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