Planned maintenance

Dear colleagues,
 
To improve the quality of our service, we decided to report
on reindexing of our database, and other maintenance issues.
We will continue to do this if the community thinks this is a good
idea.

Next weekend, 10-11 February 2001,  RIPE NCC will reindex the person
objects in RIPE whois database. This is a usual maintenance practice,
performed once every three weeks. The reindexing will start at 2:00am
Saturday, and is expected to last around 40 hours, due to the very high
number of person objects in our database.
 
During the reindexing, it won't be possible to update, delete, or create 
person objects. The messages containing person objects will be queued.
Any person object in an update message to <auto-dbm at ripe.net> will cause
the whole update message to be blocked until the reindexing process
finishes.
Thus, we suggest our users not to put person objects in a
message that contains other types of objects.
 
Reindexing will not be needed in version 3 of our database 
software.

You can see a schedule for this and other maintainance issues at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/DBstatus.html

This page will be updated regularly.

We apologize for any inconvenience the maintenance may cause.

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

Regards,

Engin Gunduz
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RIPE Database Administration.