Re: New DB and line continuation?

[RIPE Database Administration <]

Hi, Berislav Todorovic,

Thank you for reporting this.  We are investigating.

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

Regards,

A. M. R. Magee
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RIPE NCC 


 Berislav Todorovic beri@localhost writes:
 * On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, DB-News wrote:
 * 
 * >> The new version of the RIPE Database is now up and running! 
 * >> All objects have been automatically converted to RPSL and loaded into 
 * >> the new version of the Database.
 * 
 * Congratulations! However, I have a question:
 * 
 * When an attribute needs multiple lines to be described, the standard
 * RPSL format requires the attribute name to be mentioned once, while
 * successive lines are separted by spaces or commas (like you defined
 * in the transition document as well). It used to be like that in the
 * previous version of rpsl.ripe.net. However, right now, it seems to
 * me there is a strange RIPE-181/RPSL mix in place. See example:
 * 
 * * RADB and old REIMP.RIPE (standard RPSL):
 * 
 * [beri@localhost ~]$ rwhois -h whois.ra.net as-kq
 * as-set:        AS-KQ
 * descr:         KPNQwest European routes
 *                Formerly AS-EUNET AND NOT AS-EUNETQWEST
 * members:       AS286, AS719, AS1136, AS1137, AS1213,
 *                AS1234, AS1889, AS1891, AS1902, AS2043,
 *                AS2049, AS2110, AS2135, AS2857, AS3220,
 * ...
 * 
 * * RIPE (new format, RPSL):
 * 
 * as-set:       AS-KQ
 * descr:        KPNQwest European routes
 * descr:        Formerly AS-EUNET AND NOT AS-EUNETQWEST
 * members:      AS286, AS719, AS1136, AS1137, AS1213, AS1234, AS1889
 * members:      AS1891, AS1902, AS2043, AS2049, AS2110, AS2135, AS2857
 * members:      AS3220, AS3246, AS3262, AS3265, AS3286, AS3324, AS3333
 * members:      AS3347, AS3615, AS5385, AS5399, AS5403, AS5407, AS5419
 * 
 * While some of you might think this is not important, this is VERY
 * important to some of us who make scripts for automating our tasks with
 * the RIPE DB.
 * 
 * Can anyone explain the reason of this RPSL syntax violation? Thanks!
 * 
 * Regards,
 * Beri
 * 
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