new stable client releases and patches numbered 3.0.6.2 ?

[Carter Bullard]

Gentle people,
Fixes done for country code RIR file processing.  This has been rung out pretty
good, so I'm going to include it in with the next stable patch release, which I hope
will be out on Monday.

As many have asked that I not over-write versions, I'm going to start complying
with that, although I'd like to keep up with my old bad ways.  So argus will be going
out as argus-3.0.6.1 and the clients as argus-clients-3.0.6.2.

I'm hoping to announce the availability of new stable versions of argus and the
clients on Monday, and we'll distribute both tarfiles and patches.  The list will be:

   argus-3.0.6.1.tar.gz , patch-argus-3-0-6-1-diff
   argus-clients-3.0.6.2, patch-argus-clients-3-0-6-1-diff, patch-argus-clients-3-0-6-2-diff

All of these files are now on the dev server, and argus and clients can be found as:

   http://qosient.com/argus/dev/argus-latest.tar.gz
   http://qosient.com/argus/dev/argus-clients-latest.tar.gz

The current status of Bivio argus is that the clients patches fixed the issues with
back pressure getting argus on Bivio in trouble.  The fixes for argus, to solve
the problem is still in testing, and there maybe a need to release another argus
fix for Bivio, if there are problems, but I'd rather release than hold back, as its
been a few months and there are fixes for 3.0.6 that need to be published.

If there are any problems, comments, please holler !!!  I'm still learning about
all of this, and so good suggestions are always welcome !!!!!

Thanks for all the help and support !!!!!!

Carter

On Jun 14, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Carter Bullard wrote:

> Gentle people,
> Going through the archives, I've been following up on a reported bug in
> country code printing.  This affects radium() and ralabel() based country
> code tagging, and all ra* programs, when processing or printing country
> codes.
> 
> We have found a problem with ra* parsing a small number of ARIN RIR entries.
> We do not parse allocations that span multiple types of CIDR ranges correctly,
> miscalculating the span of addresses to be slightly smaller that the actual
> allocation.  We end up with some  " holes " in our country code database.
> 
> The estimate is that we are missing 0.5% of the country codes.  We don't
> assign an incorrect country code, we just don't find a code for a particular address.
> 
> If you think you are experiencing problems with country code processing, 
> please send some email.  I am fixing this problem now, and it should be
> available in argus-clients-3.0.6.3.
> 
> The bug does not affect the RALABEL_GEOIP_CITY method for getting country
> codes.  It only applies to the use of the  RALABEL_ARIN_COUNTRY_CODES
> method in the ralabel.conf file.
> 
> Sorry for any inconvenience !!!
> 
> Carter
> 
> 
> 

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