IRRd-Discuss

[Heyning A. Cheng]

Dear RAToolSet users,

I have some questions about using the prpath tool in RAToolSet and 
I was wondering if any of you might be familar with it.

I have been trying to use the prpath tool in RAToolSet 4.6.3 for
my research and have encountered a number of problems. In particular,
prpath runs very slowly, produces numerous errors, and eventually
causes a segmentation fault. In some cases one or two paths are output
before it crashes, and in other cases no paths are output, but the
program never completes normally. The errors include:

***Error: mandatory attribute as-name is not specified. 
***Error: argument to notify should be email. 

I have been running prpath with command lines such as 

./prpath -h whois.radb.net -p 43 -s RIPE,RADB,ANS,CANET,MCI -protocol
rawhoisd -as AS6461 AS5490       

I have experienced similar problems with both the FreeBSD binary, the
Linux binary, and the source code versions of the download. I had
downloaded the latest version of the tools from
http://www.isi.edu/ra/RAToolSet.

I am trying to get prpath to simply print out a list of AS paths between
two ASes. If anyone has experience with this, could you please tell me
what version of prpath you used, and with what options? Also, would any
of you have some idea what is causing the errors above? 

Thanks very much.


Heyning Cheng
Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley