>> It seems to me like the best solution might be a semi-hacky solution of >> asking arin (and other IRR's) if i can copy its DB and creating an >> internal peer which null routes unallocated blocks (updated nightly?) > > What you want to take is: > > $rirs = array( > "afrinic" => > "ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/afrinic/delegated-afrinic-latest", > "apnic" => > "ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-latest", > "arin" => > "ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/delegated-arin-latest", > "lacnic" => > "ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest", > "ripe" => > "ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/delegated-ripencc-latest", > "brnic" => > "ftp://ftp.registro.br/pub/stats/delegated-ipv6-nicbr-latest", > > //// Avoid broken/slow servers: > //// "afrinic" => > "ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/delegated-afrinic-latest", > //// "apnic" => > "ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-latest", > //// "lacnic" => > "ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest", > );
this is brilliant. maybe we should form an org to do this and distribute via bgp? shall we have a contest for the name of the org? my bid is cymru randy