[PDB Tech] PeeringDB API Discrepency

[Arnold Nipper]

On 04.10.2016 22:29, Chris Caputo wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It is possible.  We just had someone do this at the SIX in the past week.  
> They added our route server addresses, which were registered already in 
> PeeringDB.
> 

Definitely a severe bug imho and should be fixed immediately. I'm really
astonished that this pops up only now.


Arnold
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