Andrew: BGP->Route object translator

All,

> > Curtis Villamizar (curtis at ans.net) on May 3:
> > > > This needs to be refined slightly.  The "show ip bgp" output contains
> > > > an AS path.  The last entry in the AS path will be the home AS.
> > > > Andrew is putting in AS701 for every route he knows which would be
> >                                ************************
> > > > incorrect for most routes.  
> > 
> > I know nothing about cisco's show ip bgp, but I assume in
> > 	show ip bgp reg ^$
> > reg ^$ matches the as path, i.e. empty as paths, i.e. the routes that
> > he learned from IGP.
> > 
> > Is this right? In which case, he is the true home as for those routes.
> > 
> > Cengiz
> 
> 
> I missed that.  I guess Andrew had taken the AS into account.  This
> doesn't help his attached customers with their own AS.  Now all we
> need is the machinery in the shell program to avoid resubmitting the
> same thing every day and to withdraw the route (resubmit the route
> object as withdrawn) when components haven't been seen in a very long
> time (for some value of very long).  I think Steve agreed to let me
> write this and make it available since it shouldn't take long at all.
> I'll probably get to it before May 8.

Or:  should andrew have his own "source: ALTERNET".  He doesn't have
to run 181 at all;  all he would have to do is run that script into
a file once per day or more, and put the file up for FTP.  The rest
of the IRR would then pick that file up and post it through their
whois servers.

Sprint would quickly follow suit, I think.

The RADB may have little to do but to be a collator and publisher of ISP's 
.db files, but that is sort of the direction we have all proposed.

--Dale



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