August 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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Deprecation of DOMAIN object attributes
by Denis Walker 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, At RIPE 62, the RIPE NCC was asked to look at the attributes in DOMAIN objects. A suggestion was put forward to deprecate the following attributes: mnt-lower: sub-dom: dom-net: refer: These were considered to be of no use after the removal of forward domain data and no longer allowing hierarchical, reverse delegation data. The RIPE NCC is now removing these attributes from the syntax. It will no longer be possible to create objects with these attributes. To modify objects already containing them, these attributes will need to be removed. As a follow up the RIPE NCC will "clean" the reverse delegation and ENUM DOMAIN object data to remove these attributes. The web forms for both updates and queries will also have these attributes removed. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group

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New delegation checking software
by Anand Buddhdev 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, Tomorrow, 8 August 2012, the RIPE NCC will deploy a change to the RIPE Database update software. As part of this deployment, we will switch to a new DNS delegation checker, developed by .SE, the Swedish domain name registry. This change should not have any impact on the process of registering a reverse DNS delegation in the RIPE Database. However, the informational and diagnostic messages this software returns will look different from the ones you have been seeing so far. There should be no noticeable outage in any of the services during this deployment. There will be no change to any other parts of the RIPE Database update or query software with this deployment. Along with these changes to the back-end software, the RIPE NCC will also update the web-based delegation checker at: http://www.ripe.net/data-tools/dns This new web-based delegation checker will use the same software as the back-end. We will send another announcement after we have deployed this new software. If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to <dns(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Anand Buddhdev RIPE NCC

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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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