IRRd-Discuss

[Lee Ranta]

Gerald Andrew Winters wrote:
> 
> Lee,
> 
> Thanks for the copy of your irrd.conf file.  I'm sure
> you are aware that a '!' as the first character causes
> the line to be ignored, ie, it is the irrd.conf comment
> character.
> 
> An engineer in the group (Jon Poland) figured out your problem.
> The 'irr_directory' should be defined and is not in your irrd.conf.
> The 'opendir' call seg faults on a linux if it is given a NULL
> pointer.
> 
> So define an 'irr_directory' entry and let me know the results.
> 
> BTW, this points to another problem of what the code should do
> if the user doesn't supply a cache directory.  Since the DB's
> go there and you really have nothing if you do not have any DB's
> in your cache/irr_directory, we are going to make 'irr_directory'
> mandatory and return an error message to the user if one is not
> provided.
> 
> --jerry
> 
> > !
> > ! Test config file
> > !
> > !password jlrkiwi1
> > !
> > ! The cache directory
> > !irr_directory /var/irr/databases/
> > !debug server file-name /var/spool/log/irrd.log
> > !debug submission file-name /var/spool/log/irr-email.log
> > !
> > !The port of whois and RAToolset connections
> > irr_port 43
> > !
> > ! Make sure we don't get overwhelmed
> > !irr_max-connections 25
> > !
> > !db_admin lranta@mci.net
> > !override_cryptpw EWUZmlvOSvHmk
> >
> > --Boundary_(ID_ZjDtKdQHm9eNeO8PGVvbaQ)--
> >
Jerry,

I'm just trying to figure out how the entire package works so
I'll be making some monumental blunders for a little while at
least. 

While in this learning mode I'll be running your code through
some naive configurations. 

BTW, I modified my config file as you suggested and things look better.

Thanks
Lee