New tools from the RA project (fwd)

Tue Nov 28 22:14:48 UTC 1995

FYI....just in case you all aren't on these other lists.
       --Elise

>Susan R. Harris writes:
> From owner-cidrd at aarnet.edu.au Tue Nov 28 17:01:20 1995
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 16:47:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Susan R. Harris" <srh at merit.edu>
> To: cidrd at iepg.org, bgp at ans.net
> Subject: New tools from the RA project
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> Greetings - Just a quick note to let you know about some new tools
> available from the Routing Arbiter project.  Comments and bug reports
> welcome; please send 'em to ra-team at ra.net. 
> 
> > A new RADB tool tells you which RADB routes in an AS are duplicated or
>   covered by less specific routes in the IRR:
> 
>     http://www.ra.net/~ra/RADB.tools.docs/.reports.html
> 
> > A new tool to generate Internet routing table reports for each NAP
>   tells you (1) the maximum number of announced routes in the Route
>   Server's routing tables, (2) the complete Internet routing table,
>   listed by prefix and associated AS path, as seen by the NAP's Route
>   Servers, or (3) the number of routes seen by each Route Server, listed
>   by RS peer and origin AS.
> 
>   The reports in (2) from the Washington, D.C. NAP (MAE-East) have shown
>   some interesting numbers, like 32-bit host announcements and prefixes
>   reserved by RFC 1597 (private internet address allocation). 
> 
> > You can now generate NAP route flap reports by RS peer as well as by
>   AS origin, prefix, and specific AS:
> 
>     http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics/.routes.html
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> Susan R. Harris, Ph.D.         Merit Network, Inc.         srh at merit.edu
> Phone: (313) 936-2100          Fax:  (313) 747-3185
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