1. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 1 RIPE Database Operations Update Shane Kerr RIPE NCC

2. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 2 Outline Statistics Operations Developments Plans

3. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 3 Facts and Figures 1.9 M objects, 42% inetnum, 47% person 28 q/s on average, spikes of 200 q/s 2.3 updates/min, 61% inetnum, 28% person Object counts, query loads, etc. available on-line: http://www.ripe.net/db/dbconstat http://www.ripe.net/db/mrtg/whois.html

4. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 4 Database Contents Historical

5. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 5 Database Contents Recent “Big Movers”

6. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 6 Updates by Method

7. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 7 Synchronous Update Usage

8. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 8 How Many Queries are There? Number of Queries Queries/Second

9. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 9 What are the Queries For?

10. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 10 What are Queries Returning?

11. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 11 Where are the Queries From?

12. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 12 Outline Statistics ✓ Operations Developments Plans

13. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 13 Database Operations Smooth sailing –average response time is well below 1 second –load approximately 70% higher than last year New ARIN mirroring scheme next week –Use difference to generate NRTM, rather than full load –No down-time, includes allocations and assignments Tertiary (i.e. off-site) server in planning phases –Withstand catastrophic, city-wide failures –Manual failover by updating DNS for whois.ripe.net –Part of larger project to increase critical service reliability

14. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 14 How Responsive is the Server? Query time in seconds (logarithmic) InnoDB table type goes on-line Desktop Upgrade Unoptimised MySQL RIPE NCC DDoS Domain mining (heavy referrals)

15. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 15 Unreferenced Person Cleanup Protect privacy of users –Person objects remain undeleted when contacts change Person objects unreferenced for 90 will be deleted –A modify of the object “resets” the counter E-mail sent after 60 days –Limit to 2000/day to avoid overwhelming users & server Deletions begin 29 May 2003 http://www.ripe.net/db/unref-cleanup-200304.html

16. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 16 IPv6 query proxy status Operational issues resolved –Solaris patches and move to Sun box –DNS update hid AAAA record for 10 days –Moving to standard monitoring and failover Source code public release made 90% of queries come from only 7 IP addresses Still see more 6bone than RIR addresses

17. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 17 RIPE Database Administration Can Bican Engin Gündüz Tiago Antao Katie Petrusha Denis Walker

18. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 18 Recent RIPE DBM Activity Tickets, tickets, tickets –About 90/day Spam becoming a larger problem –Planning move to SpamAssassin –Will reply if filtered – no e-mails dropped! Hostmaster taking over 20% of RIPE DBM –Closer co-ordination between groups ripe-dbm@ripe.net is an open, general help mailbox Please e-mail Questions or Problems!

19. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 19 ERX Update 4 /8’s transferred –141.0.0.0/8 and 151.0.0.0/8, RIPE NCC-majority –150.0.0.0/8 and 163.0.0.0/8, APNIC-majority –Multiple transfers, with overlapping start/end dates One more trial to finalise processing “Long burn” scheduled to start afterwards –No large issues –Complete ordering, tentative scheduling TBD Moving to regular RIPE DBM and HM activity

20. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 20 Outline Statistics ✓ Operations ✓ Developments Plans

21. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 21 New Update Processing Improved acknowledgement messages Software maintenance eased Presentations at RIPE 45: –Developer POV at Tools Working Group –User POV at Database Working Group http://www.ripe.net/db/dbupdate/

22. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 22 RPSLng IPv6 and multicast RPSL objects Prototype server on-line –Based on last RPSLng draft –Throw-away copy of RIPE Database –Latest draft to be integrated Real Soon Now IRRToolSet changes –More complicated than server changes –Coming soon! http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/rpslng/

23. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 23 Semantic Changes Lots of mostly minor changes proposed: –default to protected inetnum/inet6num/domaindefault to protected inetnum/inet6num/domain –notification for more-specificnotification for more-specific –removal of cross notificationsremoval of cross notifications –"reclaim:"-like functionality"reclaim:"-like functionality –"mnt-lower:" on set objects"mnt-lower:" on set objects Little discussion Will be on-line soon

24. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 24 Outline Statistics ✓ Operations ✓ Developments ✓ Plans

25. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 25 Future Plans RPSLng IRRToolSet support Update processing semantic changes “status:” attribute changes? Deprecating NONE?

26. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 26 PKI Draft RIPE document, Improved Secure Communication System for RIPE NCC MembersImproved Secure Communication System for RIPE NCC Members LIR-Portal ready, time for Database integration New features needed: –X.509 authentication –Proxy authentication Proposals coming to mailing list

27. Shane Kerr. RIPE 45, May 2003, Barcelona. http://www.ripe.net 27 Outline Statistics ✓ Operations ✓ Developments ✓ Plans ✓

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