6bone Database cleansing?

[Nicolas DEFFAYET]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6bone@ISI.EDU [mailto:owner-6bone@ISI.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Jeroen Massar
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: rblechinger@noc.eurocyber.net
> Cc: '6bone'
> Subject: RE: 6bone Database cleansing?
>
> > > 
> > > I passed all these hosts to a patched version of fping6 
> which skips
> > > hosts without addrinfo (no AAAA ;)
> > 
> > i have to aggree, there where many "application" lines with no AAAA
> > record. i think some people doesn't know how to use this application
> > entries. 
> 
> that's not what I meant, no addinfo means that a hostname's 
> IPv6 address
> is not available in the DNS.
> eg:
> "application: ping 3ffe:8114::1"
> or
> "application ping ping.ipng.nl"
> 
> Will both be 'correct' and work. But if I put a:
> "application: ping ping.example.org"
> it won't resolve, which is what the "no addrinfo" simply points out;
> that there completely is no knowledge about a hostname.
> Thus one can conclude that those hosts simply aren't maintained -> and
> thus that those 6bone entries aren't maintained either.

I suggest to add a verification like the AS or IPs block in the whois
server for check if the host have a valid AAAA or A6 record.

> 
> > > jeroen@tunnelserver:~$ cat output.txt | grep "no addrinfo" | wc -l
> > >     329
> > 
> > 791 ping entries, 329 of them have no AAAA records.. that's are 41,6
> percent!!
> > in my view, this is a little bit to high ;)
> > 
> > maybe there should some checks when sending the template to 
> > the 6bone.db
> No there should be a cleanup every month, and if a entry 
> seems invalid,
> the tech-c etc should be contacted,
> after 4 months of no reply they should be sacked. Ofcourse one could
> argue that historic items should be conserved.
> Then again we could also keep an archive of 6bone.db.gz's per month,
> before they are cleansed.

I agree with this.

Best regards,

Nicolas DEFFAYET