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Upgrading servers to address memory issues, intermittent outage in mailupdates
by Tim Bruijnzeels 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Dear working group, Following the outage we experienced on 26 November we determined that a an in-memory cache was the cause. We have disabled this cache, and allocated more memory to the whois application process. We also determined that the whois process and the back-end database need more memory. For this reason we are fast-tracking the deployment of new hardware and extending the memory in the servers that we use. Unfortunately the deployment of two new servers led to a failure to deliver some of the mails sent to auto-dbm(a)ripe.net, the Mailupdates service for Whois, from approximately 12:00 UTC on Tuesday 6th December to 16:30 UTC on Wednesday 7th December. Any failure resulted in a reply with the Subject "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender". Kind regards Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC Database Group

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WG Chairs Selection
by scott donald 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hi all, I agree with Nigel that some continuity would be good, so Piotr would get my vote. I also think Denis has deep knowledge of the RIPE Database over many years and his experience would be very useful in the 3 person team. I would also say that David's experience at the RIPE NCC dealing with LIR questions on all aspects of RIPE Database functionality gives him a a very useful insight in how to improve it for the future for the users. Kind regards, Scott Donald Comms-care

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as-set fileds
by Shahin Gharghi 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Hello I was working with RIPE DB to export as-set objects. I downloaded as-set database from FTP server. There were a lot of comments and extra unused information in the members field. So it's difficult to work with this object as a third party software. -- Shahin Gharghi

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RIPE WHOIS down?
by Patrick Velder 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hi there I just tried to use the RIPE WHOIS but it looks like it's currently down: on terminal: > patrick@patrickhome:~$ whois 185.117.xx.0 > connect: Connection refused web whois: > Proxy Error > > The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. > The proxy server could not handle the request GET /search/query.html. > > Reason: Error reading from remote server Anyone else? Regards Patrick

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WG Chairs Selection
by Piotr Strzyzewski 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Dear DB-WG Members As agreed during DB-WG session at RIPE69 Meeting in London on 06.11.2014, the WG Chair Selection procedure is executed at yearly intervals. This means that it is about time to run it this year. This is the call for interested parties. Interested parties have 2 weeks to make their interest known on this mailing list. All members of the community are encourage to make a discussion and express their approval or otherwise of the presented candidates. After two weeks the chairs will declare consensus. Since there is a limit of 3 co-chairs, if at the end of the discussion phase there will be more than 3 proposed co-chairs then a call will be made for any of the candidates to withdraw. If there still will be more than 3 candidates then names will be put into a hat and the first three names drawn from the hat will take on the role of chairs for the next 12 months. As you may know, Job Snijders decided at the RIPE73, last week, to step down. Moreover, Nigel Titley declare that when a new chair is found, he would like to step down as well. This means, that the only reason Nigel is staying on, is not to leave the WG with only one chair. Taking this opportunity, I would like to express my interest in being co-chair for another term. All the best, Piotr -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski(a)polsl.pl

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New wizard for setting up Reverse DNS
by Alex Band 24 Nov '16

24 Nov '16

Dear colleagues, I'm exited to announce that the Software Engineering and Global Information Infrastructure departments have collaborated to provide a wizard for setting up Reverse DNS. The wizard replaces the form for creating RIPE Database objects manually, so when creating a new DOMAIN object you will be taken to it automatically: https://apps.db.ripe.net/webupdates A one-minute demo of the Reverse DNS wizard is online: https://youtu.be/7JzapYkca-Y Requesting reverse delegation for your zones has always been notoriously error prone, causing more user errors and support tickets than the creation of any other RIPE Database object. In order to maximise ease of use and success rate, we implemented the following features: - We present the user with a clear set of guidelines for the configuration of their name servers before starting the wizard - Manually creating reverse zones is no longer necessary, as you can simply fill in a prefix and the wizard will do the rest - Creating DOMAIN objects one by one is no longer necessary, as you can create up to 128 DOMAIN objects in one go - We perform a basic check on the name server before the full set of tests is run, to maximise the chance of success Please keep in mind that this is the first iteration of this functionality. We will now start gathering feedback and will run analytics to see how it can be improved further. For example, the current name server pre-checks are very basic and we can expand them in the future if needed. We are using Zonemaster for these checks and are in the process of migrating the full set of tests to this service. We’d like to thank IIS and AFNIC for their support. In case you are interested in the background story on the Reverse DNS wizard and Zonemaster, there are some presentations from RIPE 73 online: https://ripe73.ripe.net/archives/video/1517/ https://ripe73.ripe.net/archives/video/1511/ Kind regards, Alex Band Product Manager RIPE NCC

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[training] RIPE NCC Training Courses January-March 2017
by Training Services 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

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 Barcelona, London, Lebanon, Turin, Hamburg, Moscow, Riga, Turkey, Nicosia, Tashkent, Ljubljana, Oslo. 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 and RIPE Database Training Course - DNSSEC Training Course - Measurements Tools Training Course - Basic IPv6 Training Course - 2 days Advanced IPv6 Training Course - 2 days BGP Operations and Security Training Course For more information visit: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/courses With kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager

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Workinggroup Chair Job Description
by Hans Petter Holen 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

I see in the ongoing discussion in the chair selection process that there has been some questions regarding the role and commitments of the chair: The "Job Description" can be found in RIPE 542: "Working Group Chair Job Description and Procedures" https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-542 As others have stated, it is not necessarily for the chair to be present at every single RIPE meeting. It is however always good to meet in person, at the WG meeting, the WG chairs lunch and informally with other chairs, RIPE NCC staff and myself. While I have enjoyed virtual life for close to 30 years - I do still see the value of meeting in person now and then. -- Sincerely, Hans Petter Holen, RIPE Chair

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Puzzled by RIPE-NCC-LOCKED-MNT
by Ronald F. Guilmette 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

I am having a bit of trouble decyphering the explanation/description of RIPE-NCC-LOCKED-MNT given on the following page, and I hope someone will help me to understand. https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/deprecation-of-the-non… It appears from the above, that there was a transition/reorganization that took place back around 2004, and that RIPE-NCC-LOCKED-MNT was set as the maintainer on various objects that were present in the data base at that time (specifically objects which were not already adequately password protected) in order to protect some such objects from unauthorized modification. Is that description approximately accurate, I mean to a first approximation? (I understand that I'm probably glossing over a number of the fine points here, but I am doing so just because I doubt that any of those are even pertinent to my real question.) So anyway, my real question is this: If in fact RIPE-NCC-LOCKED-MNT was just something which was used as a sort-of "passing phase" stop-gap mechanism, i.e. as just a convenient expedient for securing things that would otherwise poorly secured, and if it was only applied in this way back in 2004, and for perhaps a year or two afterwards, then what would be the explanation for a *recently created* data base object (e.g. a route object) that has a created: date of, say, 2014, 2015, or 2016 and also a mnt-by value of RIPE-NCC-LOCKED-MNT? Regards, rfg

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Creating a mntner
by Ronald F. Guilmette 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Sorry. I know this is probably an faq and a dumb question, but can some kind soul tell me the exact procedure for creating a new RIPE mntner object? Does one already have to be a dues-paying member of RIPE NCC in order to do that? Where is the form that needs to be filled out and what if any supporting documentation must be provided? Birth certificate? Company incorporation documents?

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