[PDB Tech] PeeringDB API Discrepency

[Chris Caputo]

Added:

  https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdb/issues/72

Chris

On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Chris Caputo wrote:
> Slightly related: It would be nice if in addition to the Peer Name column, 
> the IPv4/IPv6 column and the Speed column could have natural sorts 
> available.  (Natural sort by IPv4 addr, rather than IPv6 addr, unless IPv6 
> is put into a separate column.)
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Matt Griswold wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> >       Arnold
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