Re: Re: Announcement: RIPE Whois Database version 3.0 beta is out

[RIPE NCC Staff <]

Dear Heiko Blume,

There are two problems.  

The first is that the RIPE RPSL server does not respond to the RADB
protocol.  You can use the "-protocol bird" option to get one that most
closely corresponds to our protocol.

The second is that the RIPS RPSL protcol doesn't exactly match the BIRD
protocol either.  ;)  The main issue is that RIPE uses the '%' character
to denote comments.  We have a patch to the RtConfig application that
works around this problem.  You can either wait for 4.6.4 to be released
with this patch (hopefully), or I can send you a diff.

FYI, there is no reference to AS33333 in the AS5427 object in the RIPE
database.

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

Regards,

Shane Kerr
____________________________
RIPE Database Administration.



Original message:
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hello, please forgive any possible ignorance on my side...


i try to use RtConfig 4.6.0 to generate a pretty simple config for testing:

   @RtConfig import AS5427 1.1.1.1 AS33333 1.1.1.1

where AS5427 contains

   import:        from AS33333
                  action pref=200;
                  accept <^AS1273+ .* AS-ECRC$>


which should request only AS-ECRC and, recursively, AS-ECRCCUSTDE from the DB.

this works just fine with whois.radb.net, but not with rpsl.ripe.net, although both objects are identical in both databases. since both
are translated from whois.ripe.net i'm a little suprised!
am i too stupid?

regards, heiko



[69] hostmaster@localhost ~/RAToolSet-4.6.0 > RtConfig -h rpsl.ripe.net -f cache2 -T all < bla
[blah]
!
RtConfig: cisco_map_name 'AS%d-IN'
RtConfig: cisco_aspath_access_list_no '100'
Whois: Open rpsl.ripe.net:43 source= protocol=rawhoisd
Whois: SetSources -*
Whois: WriteQuery !s-*
Whois: Response % This is the RIPE Whois server v3.0 beta.

Warning: no byte count error for query !s-*.


[no output at all!]




[69] hostmaster@localhost ~/RAToolSet-4.6.0 > RtConfig -h rpsl.ripe.net -f cache2 -T all < bla
! execute
!       RtConfig -h whois.ripe.net < bla
! and see the below @RtConfig line replaced by filters
!
!
! other usual cisco command should be put around here
!
!
!@localhost networks AS5427
!
RtConfig: cisco_map_name 'AS%d-IN'
RtConfig: cisco_aspath_access_list_no '100'
Whois: Open whois.radb.net:43 source= protocol=rawhoisd
Whois: SetSources -*
Whois: WriteQuery !s-*
Whois: Response C

Whois: WriteQuery !s-lc
Whois: Response A187

Whois: Response
radb,ans,ripe,bell,mci,apnic,verio,i2,bconnex,fgc,arcstar,altdb,sinet,soundinternet,look,dodnic,panix,epoch,rgnet,area151,deru,risq,semaphore,iij,gts,csas,koren,telstra,daknet,nestegg,gw

Whois: Response C

Whois: WriteQuery !iAS-ECRC,1
Whois: Response A3485

Whois: Response
AS10348 AS10450 AS10627 AS11082 AS11127 [etcetcetcetc]

Whois: Response C

!
no ip as-path access-list  100
ip as-path access-list 100 permit ^(_1273)+((_[0-9]+))*_(1248|1273|1755|1830|1902|1967|2109|2548|2592|2647|3092|3107|3233|3240|3252|3255|3261|3272|3292|3326|3334|3344|4513|4663|5380|5394|5398|5401|5412|5426|5432|5464|5498|5517|5521|5549|5556|5579)$
[etcetcetcetc]
[etcetcetcetc]
[just perfect]