[afrinic-discuss] RADB doesnt include Afrinic DB

[Timothy Lowe]

Hello Adiel and everyone,

> Exact after investigation RADB only mirror RR data(not WHOIS),
> a service which AfriNIC do not provide at this time. AfriNIC
> members could use RIPE NCC as Routing Registry. For more
> information about how to proceed please contact our IP analyst
> team at hostmaster at afrinic.net.

Indeed and this is why those objects containing routing
information AS were copied not moved to the AfriNIC whois
database. In this way the RIPE whois database routing
registry information (we have one database for whois and
routing registry info not two seperate ones like ARIN) can act as 
AfriNIC's routing registry until such time as AfriNIC have
their own routing registry function.

Route objects for non RIPE IP space can be created using 
authentication password "RPSL" for the RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT
mnt-routes maintainer.

-- 
Best Regards 

Timothy Lowe

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:00:28AM +0200, Adiel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> >However this is not directly AfriNIC issue (unless it wants to make it part
> >of its agenda), the RADB is also not correct name, its RR (Routing 
> >Registry)
> >and RADB is just one type of RR that is run by MERIT.EDU. That RR (as do 
> >many others) mirrors other RRs and it so happens that both RIPE and APNIC 
> >run their own RR, but there are also other RR available and AfriNIC 
> >organizations can also directly put data into RADB (as do American ISPs) 
> >or they can organize its own RR and ask MERIT to mirror it (or if AfriNIC 
> >wants to do that, it can run RR as part of system similar to what RIPE).
> 
> Exact after investigation RADB only mirror RR data(not WHOIS),
> a service which AfriNIC do not provide at this time. AfriNIC
> members could use RIPE NCC as Routing Registry. For more
> information about how to proceed please contact our IP analyst
> team at hostmaster at afrinic.net.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Adiel.
> 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>One big problem....
> >>The RADB database queries RIPE/APNIC/ARIN etc, but doesn't seem to pick
> >>up anything from Afrinic DB.
> >>As all big backbone carriers use RADB to update their filters, the
> >>result of this may be that members of Afrinic end up getting filtered.
> >>Can someone tell RADB to query the Afrinic DB?
> >>
> >>Kind Regards,
> >>Ben Roberts
> >>Econet Satellite Services Ltd
> >>
> >>
> >>Advanced Query
> >>Query help
> >>
> >>
> >>Results for Whois Query:
> >>whois -h whois.radb.net ' 196.202.240.0'
> >>
> >>% No entries found for the selected source(s).
> >>
> >>organisation: ORG-TLL1-AFRINIC
> >>org-name:     Telecom Lesotho (PTY) LTD
> >>org-type:     LIR
> >>country:      LS
> >>address:      Kingsway
> >>address:      Maseru
> >>address:      Lesotho
> >>address:      PostalCode 100
> >>phone:        +266 22211000
> >>fax-no:       +266 22211000
> >>e-mail:       smithiesr at telecom.co.ls
> >>admin-c:      RSM39-AFRINIC
> >>tech-c:       DPL9-AFRINIC
> >>mnt-ref:      AFRINIC-HM-MNT
> >>notify:       smithiesr at telecom.co.ls
> >>mnt-by:       AFRINIC-HM-MNT
> >>changed:      hostmaster at afrinic.net 20050309
> >>source:       AFRINIC
> >>Ben
> >>
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