BBN and RR

Steve,

Marten forwarded this for response.

> Date:     Mon, 10 Apr 95 15:24:01 EDT
> From:     Steven Winnett <swinnett at BBN.COM>
> To:       marten at wellfleet.com
> cc:       swinnett at BBN.COM
> Subject:  RRDB Setup for Client: Need Info
> 
> Marten,
> 
> First of all, I want to congratulate you and your team for a
> stimulating and informative presentation last week at IETF.
> I would very much appreciate it if you would give me the email
> address of the person who gave the presentation on RPSL; I didn't
> quite catch his name or email id and I would like to get in touch 
> with him about RPSL. Thank you.

Cengiz Alaettinoglu (cengiz at isi.edu).

> I am engaged in helping our client (a major department of the US
> Government) set up its own RRDB. We want this RRDB to be an exact
> mirror - in terms of controlling software - to the RRDB's currently
> set up for RIPE and MERIT, with of course small exceptions for 
> local usage. So far I have been able to locate and rebuild the set
> of tools which are available from RIPE. What I would now like pointers
> to would be the following:
> 
> 	1. The special whois server software which fields inquiries.

There is a whois server (designed to run on port 42) as part of the
RIPE distribution.  (whoisd).

The RA project has built an extended whois-like server which runs on
port 5042 as well.  This server provides more functionality, in a
format designed to be used by client programs rather than by humans
directly.  It is used by the RtConfig tool kit, which is used to 
generate GateD and Cisco router configurations for the Route Servers,
for CANet, and soon for AS690.

The extended whois server is available as:

	ftp://ftp.ra.net/pub/radb/tools/radbserver-181.tar.Z

RtConfig is available as:

	ftp://ftp.ra.net/pub/tools/RAToolSet/RtConfig-R-1.0.tar.gz

It would be good to send a note to rrgroup at merit.edu to us know what
tools you are working with, so we can keep you in mind in terms of
updates, etc.

> 	2. The software which fields mailed in email updates to the
> database and automatically updates the database.

This is a program called "dbupdate", which is part of the RIPE release.

> 	3. Any report generating software.

Rather than issue published reports, the IRR (Internet Routing Registry:
RIPE + RA + MCI + CANET + you + ... ) makes their database files available,
and makes information available via servers and client programs.  Special
purpose reports are easy to build from any of these sources.

> I am assuming hewre, of course, that this software, like the tools,
> is essentially public domain. I would also like to know if there
> is a mailing list or some other sort of revisiion control system in
> place for all of this software, and if so could I please be added
> to this list.

rr-impl at ripe.net.  RIPE, can you add Steve?

> 	Finally, I would like to know if there exists a document which 
> gives advice on whattt is required to set up your own RRDB, and then
> put in links to other RRDB's. I would also appreciate any pointers to
> software and/or documents discussing the issue of synchronicity which
> you raised towards the end of your presentation.

There is no document.  This kind of issue is coordinated on rr-impl .

--Dale Johnson
  Merit/RA



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