just an FYI - don't panic

In message <9505160931.AA11235 at ncc.ripe.net>, Daniel Karrenberg writes:
> 
> 
> As far as the RIPE database software is concerned, the RIPE NCC has been 
> "home of the source" and I propose to keep it so. While we are not as
> lavishly endowed with resources ;-) as the RA is, we do have enough 
> to do this task. If anyone has bug fixes or improvements, please send
> them to <ripe-dbm at ripe.net> or this list.

I second this motion, along with the numerous people that have already
done so.  :-)

> Both people maintaining the software, David Kessens and myself, will be
> at NANOG.
> 
> As to the \ continuations, we will include them in the current release.
> 
> As to PGP, a major design issue needs to be solved first: Where to store
> the public keys. It seems that the RA team is prepared to maintain the
> keys manually and separately from the database proper. Given the immediate
> number of updates this may be feasible. In the long run it might be better
> to store the keys as part of the maintainer object itself.
> 
> Daniel

I'll be sending another round of minor patches shortly, mostly things
that speed the perl code up a little.

I'm testing some of the changes on AIX, since the 32MB on my BSDI box
seems to be a problem for netdbm due to fragmentation of memory by
perl.  I'm also going to give it one more shot on BSDI, this time
without the Stanford memory allocator compiled into perl...

Curtis



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