DB consistancy checking tools
Oystein Nerhus nerhus at norway.eu.net
Fri Mar 3 17:02:01 CET 2000
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:42:00PM +0100, Thor-Henrik Kvandahl wrote: > > Hi Matthew. > > Can I congratulate with a son or daughter now ? > > Here are some ideas to a future Task Force. > > I have some ideas about consistency in the Ripe Whois DB and in the LIRs > own assignment files/DB, and also in between them. If we want to come up > with some tools/hints for LIR's to keep on top of their entries, I suggest > that we also include tools/hints to check the consistency between the LIRs > own assignment files/DB and the Ripe Whois DB. One way to do this is to > download the inetnum db from ftp.ripe.net, extract the LIRs inetnums, > do a consistency check of the inetnums, and finally do a consistency check > between the inetnums and the assignment files/DB (and why not do a > consistency check between the inetnums and all customer routes ?). > > I guess there are not many LIRs doing this today (except us). The drawback > with this solution is that we have to download the whole inetnum db > (12,5Mb) and extract all our inetnums. > > Here's an idea that belongs to the db-gw, but it is related to the idea > described above: To ease the load on the RIPE NCC ftp/whois server and our > servers, any LIR should be able to request an automatic extract every 24 > hours of their allocated blocks. This command will extract all more specific objects under 148.122/16: whois -h whois.ripe.net -F -r -T inetnum -M 148.122/16 Xystein Nerhus, KPNQwest Norway
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