[GLUG-tech] Re: BGP

[Jaco Kroon <jaco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charl van Niekerk wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Jaco Kroon <jaco@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I was aware of Mauritius, but only just noticed the others now when I
>> took this to RouterOS ... what a nightmare to not have a decent
>> scripting language - better than none at all, but ffs, it's not exactly
>> bash either.
> 
> Oh yeah, no kidding! I have actually been looking at pybgpdump [1],
> haven't had the time to play with it yet but might be interesting to
> build some kind of automatically updated list that can be displayed on
> the web and/or downloaded in XML format or something. This is handy
> for building websites that "sniff" which country the user is coming
> from - South Africa or not.

What format would suit you?  I reckon I can cook up the following pretty
quickly:

* plaintext list with prefix/legnth per line, eg:
1.2.3.4/16
196.25.0.0/16
* a simple yes/no, you basically request
http://routes.uls.co.za/isinza/?ip=1.2.3.4 and you get back a simple
"yes" or "no"
* xml (but you'll need to specify the tags, cause this really is just a
flat list, so plaintext for me makes MUCH more sense).

Anything else?

Jaco

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