[PDB Tech] PeeringDB API Discrepency

Arnold Nipper arnold.nipper at de-cix.net
Tue Oct 4 13:26:19 PDT 2016


On 04.10.2016 18:53, James Bensley wrote:
> On 13 September 2016 at 11:00, Stefan Pratter <stefan at 20c.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you for bringing this to our attention, i have opened a github ticket
>> for it here:
>>
>> https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdb/issues/68
>>
>> Stefan
> 
> 
> Whilst playing the the PDB API some more I have found another "issue".
> It's not an issue with the API as such but perhaps a feature request;
> there seems to be no duplication detection.
> 
> I was trying to automate some stuff at this IX: https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/745
> 
> If you look there are two peers listed at that exchange with the same
> IPv4 address (AS 8468 and AS 60688, both with IP 195.66.246.11). This
> kind of thing should be easily detectable. Any scope for this sort of
> function to be added, where the AS number and company are different
> there shouldn't be a matching IP, the IP can only be announced by one
> AS number at an exchange.
> 

Woow ... how could this happen? Afaik it is not possible to add an IP
twice or even more often.

Thanks for spotting. We will follow up with LINX to sort out the issue.


Arnold
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