From db-news at ripe.net Sat Jul 1 07:00:01 2006 From: db-news at ripe.net (DB Role Account) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:00:01 +0200 Subject: FAQ table of contents Message-ID: <200607010500.k61501qO001218@penguin.ripe.net> FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RIPE DATABASE ================================================== The answer to these questions can be found at the RIPE website: http://www.ripe.net/info/faq/db/main.html http://www.ripe.net/info/faq/db/security.html http://www.ripe.net/info/faq/db/lir-partitioned.html http://www.ripe.net/info/faq/db/abuse.html RIPE Whois Database FAQ http://www.ripe.net/info/faq/db/main.html 1. What is the RIPE Database? 2. What is acceptable use of the RIPE Database? 3. What is a netname? 4. What is a nic-hdl? 5. Can I use a nic-handle from another Regional Internet Registry in the RIPE Database? 6. What is a tech-c and what is an admin-c? 7. Can I register a domain in the RIPE Database? 8. How do I register a person/role object in the RIPE Database ? 9. Someone has created a person object with my name, address, telephone number, etc. in the RIPE Database. Why did they do this? 10. My information in the database is not correct, can you please update my object(s)? 11. How do I delete an object from the RIPE Database? 12. My update failed. Please explain why it failed. 13. What are the authorisation rules for route object creation? 14. Which date should be used as "changed-date" in a whois database-object? 15. I received a message with the subject "Notification of RIPE Database changes", but I didn't do anything and don't understand the message. What is it? 16. Why does my phone number appear in the RIPE Database? 17. Can I download the RIPE Database software? 18. Can I download the RIPE Database? 19. I cannot find any information about a network in the RIPE Database. Can I look somewhere else? 20. When one uses the RIPE NCC whois client, is it necessary to specify"-h whois.ripe.net" or is that pre-set by default? 21. How do I register reverse-delegations in the RIPE Database? 22. I want to have an IP->country conversion table; from where can I get it? 23. I want to peer with an AS. How do I do this? 24. Can I enter several contacts in one Database object? 25. How do I update an object in the RIPE Whois Database? 26. I cannot create a route object because the origin AS refers to an aut-num object that does not exist 27. Is the "changed" line updated automtically? 28. Can I use a nic-handle from another database? 29. Where can I find more information about the RIPE Whois Database? RIPE Whois Database Security FAQ http://www.ripe.net/info/faq/db/security.html 1. I have objects in the RIPE Whois Database. How can I protect them ? 2. How do I create a maintainer (mntner) object in the RIPE Whois Database ? 3. I have only one person object in the RIPE Whois Database. Can I create a mntner object to protect it? 4. We lost the password of our mntner. Can you please change it to xxxx? 5. My mntner password does not work. Why not ? 6. How can I encrypt a password for my mntner using CRYPT-PW? 7. What encryption algorithm should be used for the crypted password in the "auth:" attribute of a mntner object ? 8. How to use the MD5-PW auth scheme in my mntner ? 9. Why is the crypted-password published in the RIPE Whois Database ? Why not keep it secret ? 10. What software do I need to use PGP? 11. How can I use PGP with my mail software? 12. Getting started with PGP in RIPE Whois Database 13. What is a key-cert object, and how can I create it? 14. How should I modify my maintainer to use PGP? 15. How can I sign my update with PGP and send it? 16. How can I put two or more signatures in a message? 17. Can I create a maintainer with only PGP authentication? 18. What is the size of PGP key that can be used in a key-cert object in the RIPE Whois Database? LIR-PARTITIONED: The New "Status:" Attribute Value FAQ http://www.ripe.net/info/faq/db/lir-partitioned.html 1. What is "LIR-PARTITIONED"? 2. When would the LIR-PARTITIONED "status:" value be used? 3. How is such an object created in the RIPE Whois Database? 4. How can I protect an LIR-PARTITIONED object? 5. Do I have to seek approval from the RIPE NCC before entering an LIR-PARTITIONED object into the RIPE Whois Database? 6. Can I request reverse delegation for an LIR-PARTITIONED inetnum object? 7. Can I use the LIR-PARTITIONED "status:" value in an inet6num object? From alexsm at gmail.com Fri Jul 7 00:18:27 2006 From: alexsm at gmail.com (Alex Moura) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:18:27 -0300 Subject: Need help with ripe-dbase-2.3 Message-ID: Hello, We have been using the ripe-dbase-2.3 sucessfully on a server with perl-5.00503, but now we are having problems to make it run on a new server with perl-5.8.8. The server runs, but dies after sucessfully replying a query, recording only this error message: File: (...)/db-root/log/err/errlog Fatal error: accept failed: No child processes PID: 98560 I'd like to know if this code would work with perl-5.8. I will try to run it with perl-5.6.2, as it seem to be the oldest version od perl available at the FreeBSD ports. We know this code is old, but I'm hopeful to have some answer about this issue, once we have made some customizations to fufill our organization needs, and we'd like to avoid - at least for now - having to port these customizations to the most recent ripe-dbase code. Thank you in advance, Alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From denis at ripe.net Mon Jul 10 11:33:47 2006 From: denis at ripe.net (Denis Walker) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:33:47 +0200 Subject: Need help with ripe-dbase-2.3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <44B21EFB.6070808@ripe.net> Dear Alex Unfortunately version 2 of the RIPE Database code was taken out of production more than 5 years ago. We have archives of the code but no one at the RIPE NCC works on it now. I am sorry but we are unable to assist you with this problem. I have copied this email to the Database Working Group in case some one in the community can assist you. Maybe there are others still running this version of the code. Regards Denis Walker Software Engineering Department RIPE NCC Alex Moura wrote: > Hello, > > We have been using the ripe-dbase-2.3 sucessfully on a server with > perl-5.00503, but now we are having problems to make it run on a new > server with perl-5.8.8. > The server runs, but dies after sucessfully replying a query, > recording only this error message: > > File: (...)/db-root/log/err/errlog > Fatal error: accept failed: No child processes PID: 98560 > > I'd like to know if this code would work with perl-5.8. I will try to > run it with perl-5.6.2, as it seem to be the oldest version od perl > available at the FreeBSD ports. > > We know this code is old, but I'm hopeful to have some answer about > this issue, once we have made some customizations to fufill our > organization needs, and we'd like to avoid - at least for now - having > to port these customizations to the most recent ripe-dbase code. > > Thank you in advance, > > Alex From trudy at ripe.net Mon Jul 17 16:36:08 2006 From: trudy at ripe.net (Trudy Prins) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:36:08 +0200 Subject: change of aut-num object In-Reply-To: <44A237DA.7060504@quickline.ru> References: <44A237DA.7060504@quickline.ru> Message-ID: <44BBA058.7000708@ripe.net> Dmitriy Kelmi wrote: > Hello! > We can't change our aut-num: AS34221, using QL-NOC's password, > because, how i understand, our ORG-JQ1-RIPE object contain > mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT. How we can change aut-num object? Can > you set mnt-ref in ORG-JQ1-RIPE to QL-NOC? > Thanks. > Hi Dmitriy, Sorry it took a while before we had the time to answer your question. You have to authenticate for the Organisation object mentioned in the org: attribute of your aut-num object as well, for this particular update, which is: org: ORG-JQ1-RIPE you will have to provide the cleartext password of your maintainer mentioned in the mnt-ref: attribute: mnt-ref: QL-NOC Let me know if this solves your problem, Regards, -- Trudy Prins RIPE NCC Staff From trudy at ripe.net Mon Jul 17 17:33:14 2006 From: trudy at ripe.net (Trudy Prins) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:33:14 +0200 Subject: change of aut-num object In-Reply-To: <44BBA2EA.3020502@quickline.ru> References: <44A237DA.7060504@quickline.ru> <44BBA058.7000708@ripe.net> <44BBA2EA.3020502@quickline.ru> Message-ID: <44BBADBA.9020502@ripe.net> Dmitriy Kelmi wrote: > Trudy Prins wrote: > >>Dmitriy Kelmi wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hello! >>>We can't change our aut-num: AS34221, using QL-NOC's password, >>>because, how i understand, our ORG-JQ1-RIPE object contain >>>mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT. How we can change aut-num object? Can >>>you set mnt-ref in ORG-JQ1-RIPE to QL-NOC? >>>Thanks. >>> >>> >>> >>Hi Dmitriy, >> >>Sorry it took a while before we had the time to answer your question. >> >>You have to authenticate for the Organisation object mentioned in the >>org: attribute of your aut-num object as well, for this particular >>update, which is: >> >>org: ORG-JQ1-RIPE >> >>you will have to provide the cleartext password of your maintainer >>mentioned in the mnt-ref: attribute: >> >>mnt-ref: QL-NOC >> >>Let me know if this solves your problem, >> >>Regards, >> >> >> > > Thanks, we're already solve problem. > For our object ORG-JQ1-RIPE only RIPE maintainer was mentioned, > without QL-NOC (strange, i remember, what we are make changes to our > aut-num one year ago, and all has been ok). Yes, that is possible, you where probably trying to update the org: attribute (removing it?). If you update other attributes, no authorisation for the org object is required. > Using LIR-Portal we are add QL-NOC to maintainer list to ORG-JQ1-RIPE > - it solve out problem. Ok, I'm glad this is resolved :) Let me know if you have any more questions. Regards, Trudy Prins > > > > >-- >Sincerely yours, >Kelmi Dmitriy, >IT manager of data centre, >Quickline >Phone: +7 495 7400047 >Fax: +7 495 7103969 >http://www.quickline.ru > > -- Trudy