On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:16:38PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: [snip]
Unfortunately the distributed nature of the databases is one of the biggest problems with the IRR system. Anyone can run an irrd, there is
You misspelled "largest strength". FOlks get to choose which registries to believe in what order, not required to have a single [politicized] entity. If folks mistakenly believe there is a 1:1 correspendence between IRR data and BGP tables, they will lose. The IRR data is more of a "flight plan", a set of what-is-possible per the originator of the data. [snip]
people query and boom you're in the system. What tends to happen is someone puts a route into a database and then completely forgets about it, so there are a huge number of completely bogus routes out there which are never going to get cleaned up.
Lots of folks set up systems for provisioning without deprovisioning. This is not an IRR problem, but a sloppy-human problem. Folks that get stuck with provisioning generally aren't incented to remove billable resources. CF good processes and management with backbone. Cheers, Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE