Mirjam Kühne1 RIPE 34, September 1999

RIPE NCC Status

RIPE NCC Staff

presented by

Mirjam Kühne

RIPE 34 PlenaryMirjam Kühne2

Outline

• Statistics

• Services

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RIPE DNS Hostcount

8,478,706

0

1,000,000

2,000,000

3,000,000

4,000,000

5,000,000

6,000,000

7,000,000

8,000,000

9,000,000Q

2/93

Q3/

93

Q4/

93

Q1/

94

Q2/

94

Q3/

94

Q4/

94

Q1/

95

Q2/

95

Q3/

95

Q4/

95

Q1/

96

Q2/

96

Q3/

96

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96

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97

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97

Q3/

97

Q4/

97

Q1/

98

Q2/

98

Q3/

98

Q4/

98

Q1/

99

Q2/

99

Quarter

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1,5 New Members/Day

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Feb-98

Apr-98

Jun-98

Aug-98

Oct-98

Dec-98

Feb-99

Apr-99

Jun-99

Aug-99

UKGermanyAustriaFranceItalyNetherlandsRussiaSaudiArabiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandOthers

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Closed LIRs

• phase1:

• phase2:

• phase3:

• phase4:

• LIRs closed for various reasons:

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DB Queries Reach 5/sec

0

2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

10,000,000

12,000,000

14,000,000

Dec-9

6

Feb-9

7

Apr-97

Jun-9

7

Aug-97

Oct-9

7

Dec-9

7

Feb-9

8

Apr-98

Jun-9

8

Aug-98

Oct-9

8

Dec-9

8

Feb-9

9

Apr-99

Jun-9

9

Aug-99

13,091,219(~5 /sec)

(~2 /sec)

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10 DB Updates/min

050,000

100,000150,000200,000250,000300,000350,000400,000450,000

Nov-9

6

Feb-9

7

May

-97

Aug-97

Nov-9

7

Feb-9

8

May

-98

Aug-98

Nov-9

8

Feb-9

9

May

-99

Aug-99

429,884

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DB Objects Exceed 2,5 Million

0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000 2,602,809

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New hostmaster Requests

0

200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1,600F

eb

-97

Ap

r-9

7

Ju

n-9

7

Au

g-9

7

Oct-

97

Dec-9

7

Feb

-98

Ap

r-9

8

Ju

n-9

8

Au

g-9

8

Oct-

98

Dec-9

8

Feb

-99

Ap

r-9

9

Ju

n-9

9

Au

g-9

9

1,452

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Address Space Usage

0

20,000,000

40,000,000

60,000,000

80,000,000

213/8

212/8

62/8

195/8

194/8

193/8

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AS Numbers

0

500

1000

1500

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2500

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RIPE 34, September 1999

Services

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Activity Plan 2000 (ripe-197)

• Membership Services– Registration Services– Test Traffic Measurement

• Coordination Services

• New Projects – RIS– RR Consistency

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Registration Services

• Avg. response time 2-3 days

• Start processing IPv6 requests

• New manager: Nurani Nimpuno

• Efficient Procedures– No radical staff increase

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IPv6

• 20 queries received in total– 10 address space requests– 5 sub-TLAs allocated

• 3 ranges reverse delegated

• Good co-operation with RIRs and 6bone

• Smooth Start

• Few open issues (IPv6-WG)

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LIR Training Courses

• 13 courses delivered since last meeting

• 14 courses planned– SE, DE, TR, IT, FR, RU, UK, GR, NL, SK, IE

• New course material ready soon

http://www.ripe.net/lir/courses/nextcourses.html

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RIPE Database

• Redundancy improved• Fully redundant server configuration • 2nd server: “near real time” mirroring - “hot swap”

• Several performance problems• Software reached limit for some types of updates

• Sub-optimal use of hardware by the software

– Hardware tuned to the maximum– DB software tweaked– New performance features added

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RIPE Database (2)

• Database Consistency Project– good results (http://www.ripe.net/db/state/)

• Secondary Sites– rpsl, test, beta

• Re-implementation slightly delayed

• PGP Deployment– 80 maintainer objects using PGP

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Test-Traffic Measurements

• Membership service in 2000

• 43 sites participating, 36 taking data

• Data analysis in progress

• New services being developed:– Delay alarms: small scale tests– Trends in the data: analysis in progress– Results overview page: work starts after RIPE-34

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Where are the test-boxes located?

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Routing Information Service

• RIS collects and stores Routing information

• Usage possibilities– Debugging/Problem solving– Statistics– Compare announced against actual policies

• Prototype setup, used for design studies

• Design document discussed in Routing-WG– Published early October (ripe-200)

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RR Consistency

• Consistency between RR & ‘Reality’

• Use RIS data collection

• Concentrate on route/origin authentication

• RIPE community co-operation– DB-WG, Routing-WG

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RIR coordination

• Excellent cooperation - IPv6

• ICANN & ASO

• DB consistency

• We welcome APNIC staff

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Annual General Meeting

• RIPE NCC AGM: 19.10.1999– Members register now

• Agenda– AP2000– Budget– EB elections

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Questions and Answers

http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/ripe-34pres/