[139811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone still maintaining altdb.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hallgren)
Wed Apr 20 11:31:11 2011
From: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110420150542.GL68199@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:31:00 +0200
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 10:05 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:30:44AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bret Palsson wrote:
> >
> > > I submitted my objects April 11. the mtrner object needs to be
> > > created by the db-admin. I realize this is a volunteer thing. Could
> > > I help out or could the people that are helping out look at adding
> > > my record? I need to setup some peering relationships. I'd prefer to
> > > support open communities rather than paying and am willing to help
> > > out if need be.
> >
> > If you're just getting started, it might make sense to look at another db.
> > IIRC, RIPE's routing registry is free to use, supports md5crypt and
> > PGP/GPG auth, and isn't a volunteer one-man show.
>
> One of the premises of AltDB is that no support is provided. For
> example, a lot of people send email asking "how do I use this", and the
> unfortunate answer has to be "sorry we can't help you". If you need
> support, then by all means pay the money to someone like RADB and let
> them help walk you through the process. Of course after the initial
> mntner creation everything is pretty much automated anyways, so if you
> know what you're doing AltDB provides a free method to maintain your IRR
> entries with very little sacrificied over a commercial solution.
I believe that RIPE still provide training sessions (as well as quite
extensive documentation), mailing lists, etc, etc
mh
>
> There is infact more than 1 person volunteering for AltDB, but from what
> I can see of this April 11th email, it falls into the "please provide
> support" category. :)
>
