[db-wg] Severe performance problems with RIPE whois server

Hi all,

I support Nick's feature requests as it would speed up a lot of tools in the
operational community. I'd really love to see server-side expansion of
AS-SETs/AUTNUMs. 

Kind regards,

Job

On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Kaveh Ranjbar <kranjbar at ripe.net> wrote:

> Hello Nick,
> 
> Sure, these seem to be very useful set of improvements. 
> We will look into the implementation of these features and will update the list.
> 
> All the best,
> Kaveh.
> 
> ---
> Kaveh Ranjbar,
> RIPE NCC Database Group Manager
> 
> On Dec 27, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
> 
>> In order to solve this problem, what we'd really love to see is:
>> 
>> 1. support for command pipelining
>> 2. support for recursive expansion of as-set to a list of ASNs.
>> 3. support for recursive inverse key expansion of an as-set to a list of
>> prefixes
>> 
>> These would mean a massive performance gain for INEX's use case (and a
>> bunch of other IXPs around europe) and #3 would mean that the RIPE whois
>> server could leapfrog IRRD in terms of performance.
>> 
>> Would it be possible for the DB people to look into this?
>