fyi: minor updates for database software

I've installed a version of the database software (still on the 1.0.3
base) with the following changes:

aspathre:
     support AS-MACROs in AS extended path regular expressions

     make grammar conform to AS path RE grammar currently in the
     RA Toolset (version 3.2)

ripe181/src:
     support line continuations with a '\' at the end of the line
     (strip out the '\' and do the line joins on input)

     support AS Macro syntax of /^AS\-[A-Z]([_-]*[A-Z0-9]+)*$/

     support RIPE 181 routing policy expressions with the "OR" keyword

     support community list syntax of /^[A-Za-z]([_-]*[A-Za-z0-9]+)*$

     implement quad2int and int2quad versions that work with perl4 & perl5

     change PGP scanning to handle possible security hole

     add RIPE 1.1beta support for passwords on authorise and override

     send data base responses back to anyone on the cc list for the
     original message to auto-dbm

     clean up some messages

     support deletes of aut-nums which contain optional ("sugar") words
     (from, to, accept)

This distribution is available at:

 ftp://ftp.ra.net/routing.arbiter/radb/tools/dbase_960312_full.tar.gz

for full images of all the files, or

 ftp://ftp.ra.net/routing.arbiter/radb/tools/dbase_960312_RIPE-1.0.3_diff.tar.g
z

for a version with a patchable diff file (against RIPE version 1.0.3).

I should have another update fairly soon which puts all of the extended
path expression handling into perl, so that I can remove the stand-alone
syntax checker (aspathre) hack.

-Brian




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