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RIPE 59 Database Update

Paul Palse Database Manager, RIPE NCC

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Outline

•  Introduction of the DB Group •  Projects and external commitments •  Operational update and RIPE-DBM •  Data Protection Taskforce highlights •  Questions

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The DB Group

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The Database Team

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Paul Erik Agoston

Luis Benedetto Denis

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Stakeholders: Internal and External

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Projects

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AP54.3: MNT-BY on Person/Role

•  MNT-BY mandatory on person and role objects •  Software is ready •  Documentation is ready •  Test environment deployed right after RIPE 59

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AP54.3: MNT-BY on Person/Role

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AP54.6: Clean-Up Unreferenced Persons

•  Suspended after Ripe 58 •  Restarted after “not reusing NIC handles” •  Suspended now for clarification…

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AP54.7: rev-srv Deprecation

•  Done on Wednesday 2nd September •  Rev-srv attribute turned into remark line •  Approximately 105.000 objects affected

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On Wed 2/9/2009

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Various Updates

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System Architecture

•  Presented new architecture at RIPE 57 •  Most of it has been deployed •  Few remaining services will be migrated

without operational interruption

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NRTM/Split files without personal data

•  NRTM and split files without NIC-HDLs •  Software is ready •  Documentation is ready •  Test environment deployed right after RIPE 59

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Not reusing NIC-HDLs

•  Discussed during RIPE 58 •  Announced on DB-WG mailing list •  Deployed on the 10th of September

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RIPE NCC’s Other Database Mirrors

•  We are out of sync •  Reloading APNIC mirror •  Other will follow •  Address QoS

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Operational Update

RIPE-DBM

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RIPE-DBM

•  First line: Customer Service

•  Second line: Database group

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Andrea (manager)

Milena David

Emilio

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Average Tickets Per Month

0 50 100 150 200

Update Issues

Notification Issues

Password/Auth Issues

Miscellaneous

Abuse Reports/Legal/Policy

Usage Questions

DB Access Issues

154

42

115

26

26

32

10

189

92

116

51

31

12

8

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Stats: Whois Queries per minute

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•  Average queries over a year: 6,639 •  IPv6 April : < 1% •  IPv6 August : > 6%

2008 2009

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Whois Queries – Access Method

/bin/whois 91%

Proxy 7%

Whois.cgi 2%

RIPE 57 -> 58

/bin/whois 96%

Proxy 3%

Whois.cgi 1%

RIPE 58 -> 59

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Whois Queries – Usage by Country

.de 23%

.us 19%

.gb 9%

.ru 7%

.fr 5%

.nl 5%

.ua .se

.br

.ch .hu .cz

.it Other

Between RIPE 57 and 58

.de 20%

.us 17%

.ru 11% .nl

8%

.gb 7%

.fr .ua .hu .se .ch .cz .it

.pt .pl

Other

Between RIPE 58 and 59

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Query Distribution per Month

86%

12% 2%

Queries per unique IP

1 to 10 11 to 100 101 to 1,000 1,001 to 10,000 10,001 to 100,000 100,000+

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Stats: Successful Whois Updates

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•  Average updates over a year: 8 per minute

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Whois Updates - Distribution

17%

83%

Update Method

sync mail

59% 34%

1% 6%

Update Types

Successful Failed Help Spam

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RIPE DB: Query and Update Uptime

98.600%

98.800%

99.000%

99.200%

99.400%

99.600%

99.800%

100.000%

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Queries Mail Updates Sync Updates

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Data Protection Taskforce highlights

•  Final review of the Database AuP •  Final review Proxy Access Service Agreement •  Close the taskforce – mission comleted

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Things to clean up

•  Cleanup of forward domain objects •  Improve reverse delegation safeguards

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Questions?

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