[ncc-announce] Scheduled Maintenance on RIPE Database Update Server - 10 May, at 14:00 UTC

[Apologies for duplicate emails]

Dear colleagues,

On Thursday, 10 May at 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST), we will migrate the
update service to a new server as part of our RIPE Database
infrastructure upgrade. We expect the migration to take up to four hours.

Part of this migration requires us to reload both the live and test
database contents onto the new server.

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No changes during migration window
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No changes can be made to the RIPE Database or TEST Database during the
migration. This includes the use of Syncupdates, Webupdates, RESTful API
and the use of object editors provided through the LIR Portal.

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Hold off on sending email updates
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We also kindly request that you hold off on sending updates to the email
update service (<auto-dbm at ripe.net>, <test-dbm at ripe.net>) during the
migration window to allow us to make a clean restart of the new server
and perform significant testing before processing any live updates. If
any updates are sent to the email update service, they will be queued
and run following the migration. If you do submit email updates during
this time we recommend that you check the results later.

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RIPE Database queries unaffected
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Querying the RIPE Database will not be affected as this service is
completely separated from the update service. However it will not be
possible to query the TEST Database.

We appreciate your cooperation and apologise for any inconvenience this
may cause.

Regards,

Denis Walker
Business Analyst
RIPE NCC Database Group