• What is the Consistency Project?
• Inconsistency Reports
  • Overview
  • Per Maintainer Reports
• How To Fix Inconsistencies

What is the Consistency Project?

The goal of this project is to find the objects with inconsistencies not enforced by the database, and provide reports and statistics for users to help correct them. It also aims at checking for the necessary protection of objects.
The goals of the consistency project do not include, for example, reality checks for inetnum objects, but it addresses only internal inconsistencies in the database, such as invalid references.

Here are the types of inconsistencies which are addressed in this project:

• Inetnum object related:
  • Inetnum objects without "status" attribute;
  • Assigned inetnum objects without allocations;
  • Overlapping inetnum objects;
  • Inetnum objects with suspicious boundaries to form a network;
  • Assigned inetnum objects from assignments;
  • Inetnum objects with wrong PA or PI status;
  • Wrongly allocated inetnum objects.
• Person object related:
  • Person objects with multiple identical copies;
  • Person objects which do not have any references to them;
  • Person objects not having a valid nic-handle;
  • Objects which have references to invalid nic-handles.
• Maintainer (mntner) object related:
  • Mntner objects which do not have any references to them.
• Protection related:
  • Weak authentications schemes for maintainers;
  • Inetnum objects with no "mnt-lower" attribute.

Inconsistency Reports

Overview

You can access the overview of inconsistencies and daily counts from the following overview.

Per Maintainer Reports

Reports about individual inconsistencies are sent only to the maintainers of objects.

• If the authentication of your maintainer is MD5-PW, your mail should contain the following lines in its body:
  mntner: <maintainer_name>
  password: <password>

• If the authentication of your maintainer is PGPKEY, your mail should contain the following line and should be signed with the appropriate key:
  mntner: <maintainer_name>

If you supply an existing maintainer together with the proper authentication, the report of the inconsistencies related to that maintainer will be mailed back to you.

How To Fix Inconsistencies

The mails sent to maintainers about their inconsistencies contain a table with the following fields:

1. TYPE: Type of the inconsistency.
2. OBJECT: Object that is affected, you can query the Whois Database with the contents of this field to view the inconsistent object.
3. NOTES: Additional notes to assist in the determination of inconsistency.