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IRRd 2.1 release

  • From: Larry J. Blunk
  • Date: Thu Sep 13 09:30:31 2001

  IRRd 2.1 has been released and is available via the irrd web page
at www.irrd.net.  An updated manual should be available later today.
Here are the release notes --


                   IRRd 2.1.0  Release notes

  The 2.1.0 release of IRRD is primarily a bugfix and portability update.
  The primary target systems for current development are now Solaris,
  Linux, and FreeBSD.  

Fixes/Enhancements

  Numerous portability fixes for installation on Linux/FreeBSD systems
  Fixes to address various compiler warnings
  UII interface now works correctly under Linux
  fix a serious memory leak in whois port connection teardown
  a number of additional minor memory leaks also fixed
  enhancement to atomic database update code to prevent zombie processes
  add option to drop priveleges and run as a non-root user/group
  removed a number of unused files that had been imported from the MRT codebase
  streamlined configure script -- removed a number of unneeded checks
  phone/fax attribute verification was rejecting valid phone number formats
  inet6num object support now functional (indepedent of kernel IPV6 support)
  support added for GnuPG in addition to PGP
  fixed issue with "at" expression evalution for "inject:" and "peering:" attrs
  Ranges on route-set macros now evaluated when performing macro expansions.
  Be more lenient in serial number processing (allow whitespace/trailing newlines in .CURRENTSERIAL files).

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Larry J. Blunk
Merit Network, Inc.


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