ANNOUNCEMENT: Second Public Beta Release of Asused

Hi,

The RIPE NCC are pleased to announce the release of a second public
beta version of Asused. Asused is a tool to check and summarise
address space registered in the RIPE database. For a given list of
allocations the tool prints various information concerning the
allocations and the assignments they contain.

The main changes have been to tidy the code and to merge the code 
( and version number ) for our internal tool with that of the public
version. The only part missing from the public version is now that
which performs checks using information that is proprietary to our
members. We have also fixed some bugs in the software found by
internal and external users:

    * Free space at the beginning of an allocation was not handled
      correctly
    * Some overlapping assignments were being missed.
    * Assigned address space was not always calculated correctly.
    * Overlaps caused more than 100% usage.

Thanks for the bug reports.

The software is written in standard Perl 5 and uses several Perl
modules. It was written and tested on BSD/OS 3.1, but should work with
any modern UNIX-like operating system.

All the files needed are stored in this file:
  
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/asused-3.5.tar.gz

You will need to use gzip and tar to extract them, then please follow
the instructions in the README file.

We are keen to receive your feedback on this software - please address
your comments and/or suggestions to me.

Cheers,
 
Maldwyn Morris
maldwyn at ripe.net
Software Manager
RIPE NCC