Re: RIPE DB service restored

[Janos Zsako <]

>   From owner-lir-wg@localhost Wed Feb 23 13:47:01 2000
>   From: Nils Jeppe nils@localhost

Dear Nils,

>   Yes, one question; why haven't you announced taking down the DB? I find
>   this unacceptable, some of us have to work with it you know? We have
>   customers which need new Person objects, new Domains, etc. etc. Now, I
>   understand perfectly if there are emergency maintainances or whatever, but
>   don't just switch it off for an entire day without at least letting us
>   know! How much effort would it have been if you had written a seven line
>   email explaining that you have to take the DB down, and why?
>   
>   It's not like you're some kind of Internet Dictatorship or IP God which
>   can do as it pleases; the RIPE NCC takes care of this stuff on the behalf
>   of the LIRs and is financed by the LIRs, so this heavy-handed approach is
>   really not something I appreciate.


I guess the RIPE community in general does not appreciate YOUR
approach (at least I do not). :((

Please find below the mail the RIPE NCC sent out BEFORE they turned
updates off.

I guess you have not been at the RIPE meetings and did not follow the work
the RIPE NCC has been doing in the last many years. Otherwise I do not think
you would make a remark like the above.

Best regards,
Janos


>   
>   
>   Best wishes,
>   Nils Jeppe
>   
>   
>   On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, RIPE Database Administration wrote:
>   
>   > 
>   > Dear Colleagues,
>   > 
>   > We wish to announce that the whois and update service
>   > of the RIPE Database has returned to normal.  Currently, the
>   > queue of updates is being processed.  We expect this queue to
>   > be cleared later this evening.
>   > 
>   > Thank you for being patient.  You will find that the service 
>   > level of the RIPE Database has been improved.  If you 
>   > have questions, please contact ripe-dbm@localhost.
>   > 
>   > If you have any questions, please don't hesitate
>   > to contact ripe-dbm@localhost.
>   > 
>   > Regards,
>   > 
>   > Daniele Arena
>   > ____________________________
>   > RIPE Database Administration.
>   > 
>   > 


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Dear All,

Due to a crash of our whois server which we experienced last Saturday we 
are stopping the updates tonight and we are going to reindex the data. 

There is no need to resend your updates. The updates will be queued
and they will be resumed tomorrow. We are also going to upgrade the 
main server so that it can cope better with the ever growing load.

The whois query service will be switched to our backup server, therefore 
the response time will be slower than usual.

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

Regards,

Marek Bukowy
____________________________
RIPE Database Administration.






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