On Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 9:34 AM MST, Michael Tremer wrote:
Very cool.
Any reason why you are parsing the text file instead of using our Python bindings?
No reason beyond a highly unproductive preference for few dependencies and regrettable fondness for quick parsing scripts. :P
My production systems are Alpine-based and I tend to use shared systems for development where there's considerable resistance to installing dependencies system-wide, so it's usually easiest to use the packages already available on the system or those easily installable in userland.
The text file isn’t flat so you cannot only search to the first match, but since the binary database is organised as a tree, a search will be a lot faster and accurate. The bindings are packaged for Fedora, Debian and a couple of others.
If you want to have all networks that belong to a specific AS, there is a way to search for them having the library walk through the entire tree. That should be super fast.
This is a good point, though. Ideally I wouldn't be systematically discarding swaths of announcement information and incurring performance costs during queries for more or less no reason.
No worries. As mentioned we had a couple of outstanding issues and I believe that they are now all solved which will help us pave the way for a 1.0 release.
Great to see that the database is making its way into projects everywhere :)
Definitely! Looking forward to the 1.0 release. :) Thanks again.
-- Jordan