July 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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Update of mntner object with mixed authentication
by Alexander Gall 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

I'm trying to update the "shared" 6to4 anycast-relay maintainer object RFC3068-MNT. My own authentication for the object is PGP. But how the heck do I get a full copy of the object including the other people's MD5 hashes if I don't have a password myself? Puzzled, -- Alex

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Support for SHA256 in ds-rdata checker
by Alexander Gall 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

I'm not sure whether this belongs here or in the dns-wg (or somewhere else?). I just updated the ds-rdata of one of our domain objects and realized that the RDNS checker does not support SHA-256, neither for the DS record nor as part of signature algorithm 8 (RSASHA256) ***RDNS: (related to set) INFO: 6199 8 2 03A50B02CC5FCBCC8071AD93212C923E8C399DE64AE7C042442E2DE2F0029592 ; uses a Digest type that is not implemented by this checker. We cannot verify if the chain of trust is intact. You should be conciously using digest types other than SHA1 ***RDNS: (related to ns2.switch.ch) INFO: The signature over DNSKEY is made with algorithm code 8 The checker does not implement this algorithm and can therefore not validate the chain of trust It is assumed that using algoritm type 8 is a conscious choice. SHA256 has been in use for both purposes for a number of years. Are there any plans to support it in the RDNS checker? Regards, Alex -- SWITCH Serving Swiss Universities -------------------------- Alexander Gall, Global LAN Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland phone +41 44 268 15 15, direct +41 44 268 15 22 alexander.gall(a)switch.ch, http://www.switch.ch

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Syntax of the "nserver:" Attribute in Domain Objects
by Anand Buddhdev 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, Following on from the removal of the forward DOMAIN objects from the RIPE Database, all DOMAIN objects are now used for either reverse DNS or ENUM delegations. For both these cases, the "nserver:" attribute is required. Currently this attribute is optional and there are many objects in the RIPE Database that do not have any "nserver:" attributes. These objects are ignored by the DNS provisioning service, because they have no operational value. The RIPE NCC proposes to make the "nserver:" attribute mandatory in DOMAIN objects and delete any objects from the RIPE Database that do not have this attribute. To simplify the parsing of DOMAIN objects, the RIPE NCC also proposes to deprecate the list option on the "nserver:" attribute (a list, when used in combination with end-of-line comments and continuation lines, is very complex to parse). This means adding multiple name servers to a single attribute will no longer be allowed. For example, an attribute currently formatted as: nserver: ns1.example.com ns2.example.net will have to be rewritten as: nserver: ns1.example.com nserver: ns2.example.net If glue records are required, they would be written like this: nserver: ns1.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa 192.0.2.1 nserver: ns1.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa 2001:db8::1 nserver: ns2.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa 192.0.2.2 nserver: ns2.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa 2001:db8::2 There are a number of domain objects in the RIPE Database which use the list feature, and list multiple name servers in a single "nserver:" attribute. As part of this syntax change, we would update these objects to use the new syntax. This would not affect DNS delegation in any way. This message has been sent to both the DNS and Database working groups, but we ask that discussion of this matter be kept on the DNS WG mailing list. Regards, Anand Buddhdev RIPE NCC

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heads-up for the RIPE65 schedule, September 2012
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Dear friends of the DB-WG, just as an early heads-up and "warning", according to the (draft) meeting plan for the September meeting in Amsterdam, https://ripe65.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ the DB-WG meeting slot will be on *Wednesday morning*! This is a deviation from the usual scheduling for our WG in the past, which regularly placed our slot into Thurday or Friday (morning). Best regards, Wilfried.

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Deprecation of DBConstat service
by Denis Walker 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC has carried out a thorough review of DBConstat, a service to check consistency of data in the RIPE Database and produce statistics. It was written over ten years ago and has changed little over that period. The current software is unmaintainable now. The results of this review are published on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/review-of-dbconstat The review showed that this service produces a series of almost flat line graphs and provides an interactive service barely used by anyone and resulting in no significant improvement in data quality in the RIPE Database. The RIPE NCC believes this is not the way to address the few outstanding inconsistencies reported by this service. We therefore intend to deprecate this service, then investigate and address the remaining inconsistencies using other methods, as discussed in the article on RIPE Labs. If anyone has any concerns about this service, please reply to the mailing list within the next two weeks. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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Database Updates service recovery
by Kaveh Ranjbar 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Dear Colleagues, The issues with our RIPE Database update services is resolved. All mail sent during the downtime is now processed and sync updates, web updates and API updates are back to normal. If you experience any problems, please contact ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net. The update service was down between 07:58 CET (05:58 UTC) until 9:55 CET (07:55 UTC) due to hardware issues. Further details on this issue will be posted to RIPE Database Working Group mailing list at db-wg(a)ripe.net. Kind Regards, Kaveh Ranjbar RIPE NCC Database Group Manager

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