[ixpmanager] IRRDB filtering with LACNIC's IRR

[Barry O'Donovan]

Nick Hilliard (INEX) wrote on 28/10/2020 17:31:
> Ryan Woolley wrote on 28/10/2020 14:21:
>> I am not familiar enough with the code to follow this back to the 
>> source, but I would expect that $whois would be set from the hostname 
>> configured under IRRDB Sources, thus causing the command line to 
>> include -h irr.lacnic.net <http://irr.lacnic.net>.  Unfortunately, 
>> that is not happening.
>>
>> Is there another place that this needs to be set?
> 
> this is defined in the IRRDB configuration in the main admin console 
> (/irrdb-config/list).
> 
> So what you probably want to do here is modify the entry for LACNIC to 
> change the host from whois.lacnic.net to "irr.lacnic.net", and then 
> associate that IRR policy with the participant in question.


opps, not so easy. When we used whois as a backend, this worked. For 
bgpq3 I think the host is ignored.

I'll need to dig into the code.

  - barry