RIPE NCC distribution robot

Hi all,

Ludger Bornhorst wrote:
 > On last RIPE-Meeting in Stockholm i heard about a new
 > mail distribution robot at the RIPE NCC.

For your further information, the robot - for which we use the catchy
name "autohmdist" - seems to be working fine, apart from one problem
caused by x400 failure messages which we will install a fix for
tomorrow.

 > It can indicate
 > what type of mail is sent to the RIPE hostmasters and check
 > wether it is a RIPE-141-Template or an ordinary EMail.

Or any of the other mails we deal with - see:

    http://www.ripe.net/lir/services/status.html 

 > I assume this robot is written in PERL. 

Yes. We use Perl 5.004 on BSD 2.1 and BSD 3.1.

 > Now i'd like to know
 > if it is possible to provide the source of this robot for
 > download for all other LIR's? Maybe it could be usefull for
 > us/them.

We are currently cataloging all our internal software and when that is
done we plan to begin releasing to the community the tools that may be
useful for them.

A problem for potential users of these tools is the use made by each
tool of other internal and external tools. The mail robot, for
example, requires sendmail, rtt - the ticketing system manager, reg -
the registry database manager, auto-hm - the 141 request handler, and
these tools also make use of other tools. Also note that our internal
tools are written and tested on BSD only.

Cheers,

Maldwyn