AltDB?

[jlewis at lewis.org (Jon Lewis)]

[moved to nanog as it seems a far more appropriate forum than cisco-nsp]
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Jose Madrid wrote:

> Anyone here use AltDB? It seems their servers have been down for two days.
> I have emailed their admin alias but have gotten nothing.  Anyone?
>
> whois -h whois.altdb.net 199.48.252.0
> [Querying whois.altdb.net]
> [Unable to connect to remote host]

Can anyone from Level3 say how this will impact customer BGP filters. 
Will L3 keep working with the last data sync they got from altdb?  I'm 
guessing if whatever the problem is with altdb isn't fixed soon, those who 
use it as their IRR will need to re-publish all their objects in another 
IRR DB and have any transit providers who build filters based on IRR data 
update their profiles to use object data from the IRR DB to which they 
moved their records.

I'd been thinking about moving from altdb to ARIN's but hadn't had 
sufficient motivation.

www.altdb.net is reachable, but the whois server is not.  Even altdb 
queries run from http://www.altdb.net/ fail.

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