[arin-tech-discuss] Trouble deleting obsolete route objects from ARIN routing registry

Mark Kosters markk at arin.net
Thu Jan 19 16:19:04 EST 2012


Hi Axel

We've looked at your submissions and why they failed. Change your
instances of "source: ARIN # Filtered" to "source: ARIN". Your route
objects should then be deleted.

Regards,
Mark Kosters
ARIN CTO



On 1/19/12 5:07 AM, "1&1 ARIN Role (Axel Fischer)"
<arin-role at oneandone.net> wrote:

>Hi there,
>while trying to cleanup our route objects in the ARIN RR I got stuck
>deleting
>two more specific route objects that are no longer in use. The covering
>less
>specific is 74.208.0.0/16. But 74.208.0.0/17 and 74.208.128.0/18 are not
>"deletable" because I didn't get the output as expected:
>
># covering prefix
>$ whois -h rr.arin.net -B 74.208.0.0/16
>% This is the ARIN Routing Registry.
>
>% Information related to '74.208.0.0/16AS8560'
>
>route:          74.208.0.0/16
>descr:          1&1 Internet Inc.
>                701 Lee Rd, Suite 300
>                Chesterbrook, PA 19087
>                US
>origin:         AS8560
>remarks:        CUSTOMERS-6
>mnt-by:         MNT-11INT
>changed:        arin-role at oneandone.net 20090813
>source:         ARIN
></snip>
>
># more specifics
>$ whois -h rr.arin.net -B 74.208.128.0/18
>% This is the ARIN Routing Registry.
>
>% Information related to '74.208.128.0/18AS8560'
>
>route:          74.208.128.0/18
>descr:          CUSTOMERS-5
>origin:         AS8560
>mnt-by:         MNT-11INT
>changed:        noc at 1and1.com 20080411
>source:         ARIN # Filtered
></snip>
>
>$ whois -h rr.arin.net -B 74.208.0.0/17
>% This is the ARIN Routing Registry.
>
>% Information related to '74.208.0.0/17AS8560'
>
>route:          74.208.0.0/17
>descr:          CUSTOMERS-4
>origin:         AS8560
>mnt-by:         MNT-11INT
>changed:        noc at 1and1.com 20080411
>source:         ARIN # Filtered
></snip>
>
>$ whois -h rr.arin.net help | grep -A1 "\-B"
>% -B               Disables the filtering of "notify:", "changed:" and
>"e-mail:"
>%                  attributes.
>
>
>The error message clearly states that I didn't got the exact match:
>==========================================================================
>=
>Delete FAILED: [route] 74.208.128.0/18AS8560
>***Info: Syntax check passed
>
>route:           74.208.128.0/18
>descr:           CUSTOMERS-5
>origin:          AS8560
>mnt-by:          MNT-11INT
>changed:         noc at 1and1.com 20080411
>source:          ARIN
>delete: 		obsolete
>***Error: This does not exactly match the object stored in the database.
>==========================================================================
>=
>
>Is this a bug or feature? Am I missing something?
>
>
>Regards,
>Axel
>
>-- 
>Axel Fischer
>Network Engineer
>
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>
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>
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