[ixpmanager] IRRDB back-end not working

[Kyle Spencer]

They are set to AFRINIC in our IXP Manager Customer interface.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> wrote:
>
> 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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>
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> Barry O'Donovan
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>
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