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From: Jordan Savoca <jsavoca@posteo.net>
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Subject: Re: Reduced AS/route visibility
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:54:02 +0000
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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 bi=
ndings?

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=E2=80=99t flat so you cannot only search to the first mat=
ch, 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 c=
ouple of others.
>
> If you want to have all networks that belong to a specific AS, there is a w=
ay to search for them having the library walk through the entire tree. That s=
hould 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 believ=
e that they are now all solved which will help us pave the way for a 1.0 rele=
ase.
>
> Great to see that the database is making its way into projects everywhere :)

Definitely! Looking forward to the 1.0 release. :) Thanks again.

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Jordan

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