From ripe-dbm at ripe.net  Thu Nov  9 18:00:03 2000
From: ripe-dbm at ripe.net (RIPE Database Administration)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:00:03 +0100
Subject: Prototype RPSL Re-Implementation server (rpsl.ripe.net) back
	online
Message-ID: <200011091700.SAA13174@birch.ripe.net>


Dear Colleagues,

This mail is to announce that the prototype RPSL Re-implementation server
is back online, after we experienced hardware problems that caused a
temporary unavailability of the server.

The server, which runs on port 43 of host rpsl.ripe.net (also known as
reimp.ripe.net), mirrors in near-real-time the live RIPE Database from
whois.ripe.net, translating all the objects in RPSL format.

We take this opportunity to renew our invitation to all of you to
extensively test the server, in order to gain experience with the usage of
RPSL language. Soon this will become the language of the production RIPE
Database.

If you run any scripts that use whois.ripe.net, we invite you to test them
on rpsl.ripe.net, and eventually adapt them for RPSL.

If you want to mirror the RIPE Database using the RPSL stream, please
contact <ripe-dbm at ripe.net> for further information.

The test RPSL server, that allows you to send your updates to a test
database in RPSL format, is currently still offline. We will re-enable it
as soon as possible and notify you when that happens.


We are sorry for any inconvenience that this outage might have caused.

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

Regards,

Daniele Arena
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RIPE Database Administration.