Announcement: RIPE Whois Database version 3.0 beta is out

Dear Heiko Blume,

There are two problems.  

The first is that the RIPE RPSL server does not respond to the RADB
protocol.  You can use the "-protocol bird" option to get one that most
closely corresponds to our protocol.

The second is that the RIPS RPSL protcol doesn't exactly match the BIRD
protocol either.  ;)  The main issue is that RIPE uses the '%' character
to denote comments.  We have a patch to the RtConfig application that
works around this problem.  You can either wait for 4.6.4 to be released
with this patch (hopefully), or I can send you a diff.

FYI, there is no reference to AS33333 in the AS5427 object in the RIPE
database.

If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate
to contact <ripe-dbm at ripe.net>.

Regards,

Shane Kerr
____________________________
RIPE Database Administration.



Original message:
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hello, please forgive any possible ignorance on my side...


i try to use RtConfig 4.6.0 to generate a pretty simple config for testing:

   @RtConfig import AS5427 1.1.1.1 AS33333 1.1.1.1

where AS5427 contains

   import:        from AS33333
                  action pref=200;
                  accept <^AS1273+ .* AS-ECRC$>


which should request only AS-ECRC and, recursively, AS-ECRCCUSTDE from the DB.

this works just fine with whois.radb.net, but not with rpsl.ripe.net, although both objects are identical in both databases. since both
are translated from whois.ripe.net i'm a little suprised!
am i too stupid?

regards, heiko



[69] hostmaster at central.contrib.com ~/RAToolSet-4.6.0 > RtConfig -h rpsl.ripe.net -f cache2 -T all < bla
[blah]
!
RtConfig: cisco_map_name 'AS%d-IN'
RtConfig: cisco_aspath_access_list_no '100'
Whois: Open rpsl.ripe.net:43 source= protocol=rawhoisd
Whois: SetSources -*
Whois: WriteQuery !s-*
Whois: Response % This is the RIPE Whois server v3.0 beta.

Warning: no byte count error for query !s-*.


[no output at all!]




[69] hostmaster at central.contrib.com ~/RAToolSet-4.6.0 > RtConfig -h rpsl.ripe.net -f cache2 -T all < bla
! execute
!       RtConfig -h whois.ripe.net < bla
! and see the below @RtConfig line replaced by filters
!
!
! other usual cisco command should be put around here
!
!
!@RtConfig networks AS5427
!
RtConfig: cisco_map_name 'AS%d-IN'
RtConfig: cisco_aspath_access_list_no '100'
Whois: Open whois.radb.net:43 source= protocol=rawhoisd
Whois: SetSources -*
Whois: WriteQuery !s-*
Whois: Response C

Whois: WriteQuery !s-lc
Whois: Response A187

Whois: Response
radb,ans,ripe,bell,mci,apnic,verio,i2,bconnex,fgc,arcstar,altdb,sinet,soundinternet,look,dodnic,panix,epoch,rgnet,area151,deru,risq,semaphore,iij,gts,csas,koren,telstra,daknet,nestegg,gw

Whois: Response C

Whois: WriteQuery !iAS-ECRC,1
Whois: Response A3485

Whois: Response
AS10348 AS10450 AS10627 AS11082 AS11127 [etcetcetcetc]

Whois: Response C

!
no ip as-path access-list  100
ip as-path access-list 100 permit ^(_1273)+((_[0-9]+))*_(1248|1273|1755|1830|1902|1967|2109|2548|2592|2647|3092|3107|3233|3240|3252|3255|3261|3272|3292|3326|3334|3344|4513|4663|5380|5394|5398|5401|5412|5426|5432|5464|5498|5517|5521|5549|5556|5579)$
[etcetcetcetc]
[etcetcetcetc]
[just perfect]