[WG-IRR] Re: JPNIC IRR Workshop

[Andy Linton <asjl@lionra.net.nz>]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, George Michaelson wrote:

> Current status is that the IRR is being stabilized on a publically
> exposed host (irr.apnic.net) and will be available 24/7 for
> mirroring, and for tests of email -> whois lodgement. Associated
> web pages are in production.

I've been doing some testing on updates via email. These are working using
the MAIL-FROM and CRYPT-PW methods. The PGPKEY method may also be working
but I'm trying to identify a mail client that will produce messages in the
required format - I'll advise progress on this.

Given that the APIRR pilot runs on version 3.0 of the RIPE Database you
may wish to make yourselves familiar with their on line manual at
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/databaseref-manual.html

If you intend to run a copy of the RIPE software, please make sure you use
the latest release, 3.0.2 - details attached. This version is much easier
to get running than previous releases.

> An initial bootstrap state of source=APNIC has been used to create
> source=APIRR, and we will attempt to maintain updates from source APNIC
> but cannot guarantee all changes will come over, due to some non-conformant
> R181 records which can't load into RPSL.

As people use the APIRR database they may also create objects which clash
with objects loaded in the APNIC database.

> We should be able to do IIJ mirroring here right now.

We have a mirror of IIJ running as well as copies of:

APIRR:1:N:563638-564380
TELSTRA:1:N:73293-77788
CCAIR:1:Y:2-12616
RADB:1:N:64358-71553
IIJ:1:N:65-69

I believe the IIJ data is up to date - we are mirroring irr.iij.ad.jp:43
but have seen no changes for some time.

> We should be able to start mirroring radb and ripe hosted IRR shortly.

See above. Loading the RIPE database will happen soon. Are there any other
databases that could/should be mirrored?

andy

From shane@ripe.net Wed Oct 24 14:30:19 2001
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:39:23 +0200
From: Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net>
To: local-ir@ripe.net, db-wg@ripe.net, nrt-mirrors@ripe.net, db-beta@ripe.net
Subject: RIPE Whois Server version 3.0.2

Dear Colleagues,

[Apologies for multiple messages].

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the release of Version 3.0.2 of the
RIPE Whois server.  This software is compliant with both RPSL
(RFC-2622) and RPS-Security (RFC-2725).

This release is intended both as a bug fix release, and also to offer
much-improved ease of installation and configuration.

Detailed release notes can be found at the following URL:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/RELEASE-NOTES-3.0.2

You can download this release by anonymous FTP from the following URL:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/ripe-dbase-3.0.2.tar.gz

If you do not intend to use the cross-reference files or prefer to build
them yourself via "make docs", you can download the source without these
files by anonymous FTP from the following URL:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/ripe-dbase-3.0.2-nocxref.tar.gz

A patch for the 3.0.1 "nocxref" version is also available, if you
already have that version, at the following URL:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/patch-ripe-dbase-3.0.1-nocxref-3.0.2.gz

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

--
Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC

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