Re: DB consistancy checking tools

[Andrei Robachevsky <]

Deat Thor-Henrik,

Thor-Henrik Kvandahl wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Robert Kiessling wrote:
> 
> > Thor-Henrik Kvandahl writes:
> >  > I guess there are not many LIRs doing this today (except us).
> >
> > You're not alone :)
> Good.
> 
> >
> >  > The drawback
> >  > with this solution is that we have to download the whole inetnum db
> >  > (12,5Mb) and extract all our inetnums.
> >
> > Why does
> >
> >     whois -M <your allocation block>
> >
> > or
> >
> >     whois -i mnt-by <your inetnum maintainer>
> >
> > not work for you?
> 
> It does :-) I just thought getting a small compressed file with ftp would
> be better if many LIRs started to do this. Perhaps someone from the DBM
> group can comment on this ?

From the performance point of view the two approaches seem to be almost
the same. There should not be many cases when this extracted information
could be re-used which may benefit the performance.

Unless you have in mind some easy-to-use tool for LIR (with web
interface, options, etc.)

> 
> --
> Thor-Henrik
> 
> >
> > Robert
> >

Regards,
-- 

Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group
RIPE NCC