Release of patch for ripe-dbase-3.0beta2 software.

[RIPE Database Administration <]

Dear Colleagues,

[Apologies for multiple mails].

This mail is to notify you that today, we have released a patch for the
ripe-dbase-3.0beta2 software.  This patch has several bug fixes.
Specifically, this patch includes, amongst other fixes:

- TEMPORARY tables in MySQL 3.23 are supported;

- a major memory leak on Solaris 8 has been fixed;

- CLIENTADDRESS referral now properly passes addresses;

- the "-m" queries work now;

- memory allocation bug in dbupdate is fixed;

- multiple notification problems have been fixed;

- improved acknowledgement and notification message formats.


You can download this patch from the following URL:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/reimp/ripe-dbase-3.0beta3.patch.gz

We remind you that you can also test the functionality of this patch 
for the RIP whois server in 2 ways:

			- By querying the host reimp.ripe.net at port 43;
           you will find there a Near-Real-Time Mirror
           of the RIPE Database. This mirror is in RPSL format.

			- By using the RIP Test Database. You can send test
			  updates to this database at the address auto-rip@localhost,
			  and you can query this database at reimp.ripe.net port 4343.


We would be very pleased if you could test the patch in both ways, and
let us know your opinions.

Please send your comments and bug reports to the 
db-beta@localhost mailing list.

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delays in subscription are possible.

If you are interested in providing to the community tools and 
documentation supporting the RIPE-181 to RPSL migration, you are
welcome to join the reimp-mig-tf mailing list.  To subscribe to this
list, follow the instructions given above for subscribing to the
db-beta list (doing s/db\-beta/reimp\-mig\-tf/, of course :-).

If you have any questions, please contact
ripe-dbm@localhost.

Regards,

A. M. R. Magee
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Database Group
RIPE NCC