route object check-up

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:

>   When the starting address is not properly aligned on a power of 2  for
>   the block-size.
> 
>   The hint you are receiving, as attached below, is an indication for
>   this, i.e.
>   - 80.82.178.0 is only properly aligned for 2 consecutive Class Cs,
>     80.82.178.0 and 80.82.179.0),
>   - whereas for a /20 (16 consecutive Class Cs) the proper alignment would
>     be 80.82.176.0

but we've faced with ripe db impossibility of checking this
inconsistency since notification attached below was formed by our robot
wich does not allow to create object 80.82.178.0/20 and notifies
us that something wrong in ripe db

>     
>   Btw, the same issue might eventually arise when someone tries to do an
>   aggregated announcement on the routing layer for this block.
>   
>   Possible solutions:
>   - move the address block to the proper alignment
>   - partiton the block into a set of smaller, consecutive, aligned chunks
>   - try to register the address as a range (although this might trigger
>     the same error message, depending on implementation of checks...)
>     
>   I guess the older versions of the software were less picky than the new
>   implementation is...
> 

it seems to be vise virsa - new implementation of the software is less picky

> >
> >Update [FAILED]
> >
> >dbupdate:
> >80.82.178.0/20 is an invalid net and prefix combination:-
> >length 20 (mask 255.255.240.0) is outside the range of 80.82.178.0
> >Possible values with these combinates are:
> >based on length 80.82.176.0/20
> >based on prefix 80.82.178.0/23
> 
>   Regards,
>  _________________________________:_____________________________________
>   Wilfried Woeber                 : e-mail: Woeber at CC.UniVie.ac.at
>   UniVie Computer Center - ACOnet : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33
>   Universitaetsstrasse 7          : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140
>   A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe  : RIPE-DB: WW144, PGP keyID 0xF0ACB369
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 


With respect,
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