[ixpmanager] IRRDB back-end not working

[Barry O'Donovan]

Kyle Spencer wrote:
> They are set to AFRINIC in our IXP Manager Customer interface.

And can you goto:

IXP Manager -> left hand side menu -> IRRDB Configuration

and then edit that IRRDB source and send me a screenshot?

If host is not set to "whois.radb.net" and protocol is not set to
"irrd", can you try those?

 - Barry


> 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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>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Barry O'Donovan
>> INEX Operations
>>
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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
INEX Operations

https://www.inex.ie/support/
+353 1 531 3339