[routing-wg]Announce: BGP-Inspect-RIPE

[Manish Karir mkarir@localhost]

All,

I was asked to re-announce our tool to this forum as some people might
have missed the original announcement on the nanog mailing list.
BGP-Inpsect is a project from Merit Network Inc, and the University
of Maryland which provides easy access to archived BGP data from
various archives such as Routeviews or RIPE.  Uptill now
the only data that was available thru our database was a
subset of the Routeview data.
Additional BGP-Inspect sites are now available as well.
This should provide much better visibility than before.

The new sites are:
- BGP-Inspect-RIPE(http://bgpinspect.merit.edu:9090):
     Partial RIPE BGP update data, Data from Jan 1 2006 onwards
- BGP-Inspect-Merit(http://bgpinspect.merit.edu:8080):
     Partial Merit BGP update data, Data from Jan 1 2006 onwards

The old site was:
- BGP-Inspect-Routeviews(http://bgpinspect.merit.edu)
     Partial Routeviews Data, Data from Aug 1 2005 onwards

A new feature that we wanted to 
announce that has not seen a lot of use is the ability to select multiple 
"peers" in a single query.  This
allows you to query for a prefix/AS across multiple peers with a single
query.  Just hold down the ctrl key to select the peers you wish to query.

Usage instructions and some frequently asked questions/answers are
available at: http://bgpinspect.merit.edu/faq.php

Comments are welcome (offlist please).

thanks
manish