Hi Ronald, Could I request that you provide a pastebin of the actual list of prefixes that you think are at issue here?
-Cynthia On Thu, Jun 10, 2021, 21:43 Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends, > > As previously discussed, the decision was made awhile back to remove from > the data base all RIPE-NONAUTH route objects which refer to currently > unallocated IP space: > > https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2021-May/006952.html > > In recent days I stumbled upon one such object that was still present > in the data base. Upon seeing that object, I necessarily assumed that > it was most likely not a "one off", and that it probably had siblings. > > In the spirit of trying to help out, and after a fair bit of fooling > around on my part, I managed to concoct a rather simple method for > finding all such bogon route objects that remain in the data base, > and I wrote a small Perl script to do that exact thing. A copy of > the script may be obtained here, for anyone who may be interested: > > https://pastebin.com/raw/LsvZ05tX > > Notes: > > *) The script assumes the presence of two external programs and their > presence on the user's current $PATH, i.e. the widely used wget progarm, > and also John Levine's version of a thing called grepcidr, sources for > which may be obtained here: > > https://github.com/jrlevine/grepcidr3 > > *) The initial line of the script may have to be adjusted depending on the > location, in the filesystem, of your local Perl interpreter. > > *) The script computes its results based upon the following two input data > files, both of which are automagically fetched by the script using wget: > > > https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/delegated-stats/nro-extended-stats > ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe-nonauth.db.gz > > (It is my understanding that each of these is updated on a daily basis.) > > *) The script DOES NOT verify that the entirety of any given RIPE-NONAUTH > route object in fact refers to bogon space. Rather the script only checks > to see whether or not the first IPv4 address of each current RIPE-NONAUTH > route object does or does not refer to current bogon space. If it does, > then the entire IPv4 CIDR of the route object is printed to stdout. > > *) Assuming that the script is installed as "ripebogonroutes" and in one's > path, it may be invoked simply as: > > ripebogonroutes > bogon-route-cidrs > > *) At present there are 55,964 RIPE-NONAUTH objects in the data base. Of > these, the first address of 857 of them refers to current bogon space. > It is my fervent hope that the corresponding RIPE-NONAUTH route objects > will be removed from the data base as soon as reasonably practical. > > > Regards, > rfg > >
