[PDB Tech] PeeringDB API Discrepency

[Matt Griswold]

Agreed, not sure how that got in, made
https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdb/issues/71 and will check it out /
add better tests.

On Oct 4, 2016 3:46 PM, "Arnold Nipper" <arnold.nipper at de-cix.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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