April 2012 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

<auto-dbm@ripe.net> is slow this afternoon.
by RIPE Database Administration 17 May '18

17 May '18

Dear Colleagues, Because of a very high level of use this afternoon, the response time of <auto-dbm(a)ripe.net> is longer than normal. I have made contact with those who are responsible and I expect the situation to improve as the machine works through the queue. Please be patient. Obviously we at the RIPE NCC Database Group are continuously working to make the performance of the database as good as possible. However, we cannot make improvements in zero time. We thank you for your co-operation up to now and we ask for your continued co-operation so that everyone receives the best possible service. If you have anymore questions, please contact <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Ambrose Magee ____________________________ RIPE Database Administration.

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RIPE NCC Training Courses April-June 2012 - IL, BE, IS, PL, RU, FI, NL, DE, ES, HR
by Training Mailbox 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Dear Colleagues, Our training team travels the RIPE NCC service region to deliver training courses to our members without any additional cost. Over the next few months, we'll be in Tel Aviv, Brussels, Reykjavik, Belfast, Gdansk, Yekaterinburg, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Munich, Seville and Croatia. Visit the following page to register and to check which training courses we are giving in your area: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses The RIPE NCC delivers the following training courses: - LIR Training Course - IPv6 for LIRs Training Course - Routing Registry Training Course For more information visit: http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/courses With kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager

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MD5 Hashes in the RIPE Database
by Denis Walker 23 May '12

23 May '12

Dear colleagues, It was clear from the discussions at RIPE 64 that we need to change the initial implementation of hiding the hashes for MD5 passwords in MNTNER objects. A suggestion was made to keep the "auth:" attributes in place. If the authentication token is an MD5 password we will remove the hash value. All PGP and X.509 values will remain unchanged. We have already worked on this and a sample MNTNER object would look like the object below. We can deploy this change within the next two weeks. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group $whois -B DEV-ROOT-MNT % The objects are in RPSL format. % % The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf [Open URL] % Information related to 'DEV-ROOT-MNT' mntner: DEV-ROOT-MNT descr: Mntner for DEV-DBM-MNT admin-c: AA1-DEV tech-c: AA2-DEV upd-to: bitbucket(a)ripe.net mnt-nfy: bitbucket(a)ripe.net auth: MD5-PW # Filtered auth: PGPKEY-1290F9D2 notify: bitbucket(a)ripe.net mnt-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT referral-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT remarks: This is an automatically created object. changed: bitbucket(a)ripe.net 20051031 source: DEV # Filtered role: DEV ROLE nic-hdl: AA2-DEV address: Somewhere in nowhere phone: +12 34 567 8900 fax-no: +12 34 567 8900 e-mail: bitbucket(a)ripe.net abuse-mailbox: bitbucket(a)ripe.net admin-c: AA1-DEV tech-c: AA2-DEV mnt-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT remarks: This is an automatically created object. changed: bitbucket(a)ripe.net 20051031 source: DEV person: Test Person mnt-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT address: Somewhere in nowhere phone: +12 34 5678900 fax-no: +12 34 5678900 e-mail: bitbucket(a)ripe.net nic-hdl: AA1-DEV remarks: This is an automatically created object. changed: bitbucket(a)ripe.net 20051031 source: DEV % This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version 1.9-SNAPSHOT (UNDEFINED)

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Re: [db-wg] Reverse aut-num queries in the database
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

David Freedman wrote: > After the feedback from the DB-WG Meeting in Vienna last week, I'd like > to bring this back to the list. > > I'd been trying to clean up an Aut-Num to return it to the NCC. I wanted > to know if there was a way of undertaking an inverse search against the > RPSL policies of my peers' Aut-Num objects to ensure they could remove all > references to be before handing the resource back. So - do I understand this correctly, you would like to have a query that lists all route[6]: objects with a particular origin: AS number in it? Or do you think about the Routing Policy analysis, e.g. the use of a particular AS number in a "macro"? > I'm currently doing this with a free-text search, since the database doesn't hold references to the tokens in the RPSL policy (or does it?) > > Any better ideas? > > Dave. Sorry for not responding to this message for so long. Blush :-( Wilfried

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The WEIRDS effort at the IETF mentioned during the meeting
by Peter Koch 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Dear all, the effort mentioned at the mike in the DB WG session few minutes ago is named "WHOIS-based Extensible Internet Registration Data Service" (WEIRDS). There have been two BOFs, which is the maximum number of official pre-WG meetings the IETF rules allow and the proponents are now working towards becoming an IETF working group. Absent that state, the full extent of nice tools is not yet available, but you will find the drafts relevant to the initiative at <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/search/?name=-weirds-&activeDrafts=on&sear…> There is also a mailing list in the archive of which you can find the latest proposed charter: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/weirds>. Various participants have blogged or otherwise shared their enthusiasm to eventually solve the "whois problem". Please use a search engine of your liking or start at <http://www.internetsociety.org/articles/something-weirds-way-comes>, noting that the IETF journal is always a nice source of overview information on what's up in the IETF. -Peter

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New on RIPE Labs: Two new RIPE DB Related RIPEstat widgets
by Mirjam Kuehne 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Dear colleagues, Please find two articles on RIPE Labs that describe two new RIPEstat widgets: 1. The object browser for RIPE database objects: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripestat-objects-browser-for-ripe-datab… 2. The Address Space Hierarchy widget: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripestat-address-space-hierarchy-widget Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Re: [db-wg] RIPE64 DB-WG Draft Agenda V1 --> V2
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

This is a very late update/addition to the V1 draft agenda, bumping the version to V2 :-) Wilfried Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote: > Dear DB-WG folks, Chairpersons, "Meeting"! > > This is the 1st draft of an agenda for the DB-WG at RIPE64 in Ljubljana, > during CW16, April 2012. > > For time slot allocations please refer to the most up-to-date meeting > plan at http://ripe64.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan > > The DB-WG Meeting is scheduled for *Thursday*, April 16th, starting > at 14:00 in the afternoon (in parallel with the meeting of the IPv6-WG). > The length of our timeslot is 90 Minutes. > > Please feel free to propose additional topics to be discussed! > > I'd also suggest that you submit your points of view regarding the > topics on the proposed agenda on the mailing list, preferably before > the WG meeting's start :-) > > > Best regards, > hope to see you soon in Slovenia, > Wilfried. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > A. Administrative Matters > . Welcome > . select scribe > . finalise agenda > . approval of minutes from previous WG meeting(s) > . review of action list > > > B. Data Base Update (N.N., RIPE NCC) [~20 min] > - general update > - geolocation status/implementation > - internationalisation > > > C. RIPEstat (Daniel K., RIPE NCC) [~20 min] > - new way of accessing database content > - discussion about access control D. Review of implementation of auth: filtering - filtering of public key information - lack of hint about type/number of attributes omitted > Y. Input from other WGs and/or TFs > > > Z. AOB > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > >

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Geolocation beta functionality now in the RIPE DB
by Alex Band 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that geolocation functionality now is available as a beta in the RIPE Database. It can be optionally included in the INETNUM and INET6NUM objects. With the operational experience we gain with this beta, we will continue to develop it to a production service. Two attributes have been added: - "geoloc:" - "language:" The first attribute stores the geolocation data as longitude and latitude, specifying the area where the address space is used. The second attribute sets the preferred language that users of the address space wish to see content in. In addition, we are launching the Geolocation Finder: https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/geolocation-finder.html This tool helps you find geolocation data in the RIPE Database, by simply entering an IP address in the form. If the address is covered by either location or language data, the results are shown as text and on a Google map. Kind regards, Alex Band Product Manager RIPE NCC

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