ANNOUNCEMENT: Third Public Beta Release of Asused

Hi,

The RIPE NCC are pleased to announce the release of a third public
beta version of Asused - this is Version 3.51. 

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 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-3.51.tar.gz

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


The changes since Version 3.5 are:

   * Produce a warning if an assignment overlaps allocation.

   * Fixed behaviour with RIPE* mnt-by and mnt-lower.

   * Report all Asused object warnings.

   * Fixed installation procedure to copy 'iso3166-codes' and
     'delegations' files with other libraries to make them available
     with system-wide installation.

   * ReadConf() in a public version exitted after first guess without
     checking other locations.

   * Fixed command line argument parsing: ranges, prefixes and regids
     now accepted.

   * Program name in help now derived from $0.

   * Usage slightly reworded.


Thanks to the following people for bug reports and suggestions:

  Carsten Schiefner
  Mark Guz :-)
  Stephan Mankopf
  Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
  Abdullah Saad M. Al-Ashry
  Herbert Baerten
  Kevin Bates
  Juergen Rauschenbach


The original author of Asused was Daniel Karrenberg, it was worked on
by Roderik Muit and Antony Antony rewrote it. The current version has
been extended and fixed by Timur Bakeyev.


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

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