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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/Aug/18 07:33, Daniel Shaw wrote:<br>
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Thanks Mark, I'll add that RADB also replicate all IRR records from the AFRINIC DB too.</pre>
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Yes, Daniel. I had that as one of the major IRR's out there :-).<br>
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For completeness, I'd believe those are:<br>
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- All RIR's IRR databases.<br>
- RADB<br>
- NTT<br>
- Level(3)<br>
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And therefore, operators can also (and often do) query the records via RADB. For example:
% whois -h whois.radb.net 2001:42d0:0:200::6
route6: 2001:42d0::/32
descr: AFRINIC-JNB-OPS
origin: AS33764
mnt-by: AFRINIC-IT-MNT
changed: ***@afrinic.net 20150902
source: AFRINIC
And this also means the tools like 'bgpq3' will "just find" the data by default, for example:
% bgpq3 -6 -b as-afrinic
NN = [
2001:42d0::/32,
2001:43f8:110::/48,
2001:43f8:120::/48
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Since there is replication between AFRINIC and RADB (not sure about
NTT, Level(3) or the other RIR's) via, AFRINIC members should not be
concerned about global operators that generate filters based on this
will lose their information after RIPE implement their changes.<br>
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We've always encouraged all of our customers to create their WHOIS
and IRR objects in AFRINIC as a matter of course, even if they've
been used to using another database. I'd encourage all operators in
Africa to push for this as well.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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