[ixpmanager] IRRDB back-end not working

[Barry O'Donovan]

Right, let's stick with SEACOM.

See: http://docs.ixpmanager.org/usage/customers/

What IRRDB source have you set for them?


Kyle Spencer wrote:
> I have 30 networks connected to the IXP and the artisan script says
> they are all 0 prefixes. Even, for example, SEACOM:
> 
> SEACOM: [IPv4: 0 total; 0 stale; 0 new; DB updated] [IPv6: 0 total; 0
> stale; 0 new; DB updated]
>     Customer not a RS client or IRRDB filtered. Prefixes, if any,
> wiped from database.
> 
> But if I run:
> 
> bgpq3 -h whois.radb.net -S AFRINIC -l pl -j AS37100
> 
> I get:
> 
> { "pl": [
>     { "prefix": "41.87.96.0\/19", "exact": true },
>     { "prefix": "41.206.96.0\/19", "exact": true },
>     { "prefix": "41.217.212.0\/22", "exact": true },
>     { "prefix": "105.16.0.0\/12", "exact": true }
> ] }
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> wrote:
>> Kyle Spencer wrote:
>>> The PHP Data Structure Ds\Set extension is not loaded/available.
>>> Falling back to polyfill which, in extreme cases, can take ~3 hours.
>>> Install the php-ds extension!
>> If your system has the package, run:
>>
>> apt install php-ds
>>
>> for quicker processing.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I have tried to manually execute the command as outlined by the
>>> documentation and that does not work properly either:
>>>
>>> bgpq3 -h whois.afrinic.net -S AFRINIC -l pl -j AS29032
>>>
>>> However, getting rid of the "-h <HOST>" and "-S <SOURCE>" command line
>>> options does work:
>>>
>>> bgpq3 -j -l pl AS29032
>>>
>>> Any idea what's going wrong in the background? Where can I modify the
>>> command it's using?
>> So bgpq3 with IXP Manager is actually hard coded to use whois.radb.net
>> currently no matter what the IXP Manager setting due to issues using
>> some servers directly.
>>
>> However, it does use the correct sources.
>>
>> So, in your example, IXP Manager would actually run and get:
>>
>> $ bgpq3 -h whois.radb.net -S AFRINIC -l pl -j AS29032
>> { "pl": [
>> ] }
>>
>>
>> In your own test, you didn't specify -h so it also defaults to
>> whois.radb.net. You also didn't specify -S which actually defaults to a
>> search of all databases rather than just AFRINIC which is why you get
>> results.
>>
>> A common job body of work that INEX undertakes with most new (and
>> typically smaller members) is getting them to register their routes in
>> the RIPE database.
>>
>>  - Barry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> 
> 

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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
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