ANNOUNCEMENT: Public Release of Asused

Hi,

The RIPE NCC are pleased to announce the release of a new public
version of Asused - this is Version 3.52. 

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-3.52.tar.gz

or alternatively, just:

    ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/asused-latest.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 3.51 are:

    * No longer designated as beta software.

    * Fixed problem with huge free address space reports, caused by
    bug in the Whois DB - "-Tin" returns rev-srv: A.B.C.D fields as
    well.

    * Fixed problem with RIPEWhois.pm module, which didn't return 
    anything on some Linux'es. Was reported several times, visible
    effect was:
        FATAL ERROR: ERROR: 10.65.0.0/19 No allocation object in DB, 
        inetnum found

    * Fixed small compatability problem - some systems don't let to use
    IO::Socket::INET directly, so, turned that into "use IO::Socket".

    * Put the CPAN IO module IO-1.20.tar.gz into extra/ directory, as
    some Perl distributions come with outdated modules and CPAN
    suggests perl5.6.0 as an update :>

    * Added --free flag to show only free address space list.

    * Produce a warning if a registry doesn't have mnt-lower attribute
    on it's allocation.

    * Fixed the case that --status didn't report assignments with
    missed status lines and gave incorrect balance.


Thanks to the following people for bug reports and suggestions:

    Elmar K. Bins
    Jean-Francois Stenuit
    Dominic Mitchell
    Daniel N. Rasmussen
    Johannes Dagemark

Timur Bakeyev of RIPE NCC did the programming.  


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