Local Internet Registry

Training Course

Exercise Booklet

May 2013
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Introduction
Your database objects
For your convenience we have already created some objects in the RIPE
TEST Database. You can use these objects during the practical exercises
today.

We have created a maintainer, person, organisation and IPv4 allocation

object for you.

To identify your objects, please look up your number in the attendees’ list
and substitute that in the placeholders. As an example, if your number on the
list is 3, your person object will be LIRA3-TEST. On the next pages you will
find the list of all your objects that are in the TEST Database.

Passwords
All your objects are protected by your own maintainer object. In order to
modify any of them, you will need the password for this maintainer.

This password is “secret” + your number, so the password for attendee 1 will
be secret1, the password for attendee 2 will be secret2, and so on.

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All pre-created objects

Fill in all placeholders with your number on the list

person:
LIR Course Attendee
remarks:
Local Internet Registry Attendee Person
address:
Singel 258
address:
1016 AB Amsterdam
phone:
+312053544444
e-mail:
attendee@example.org
nic-hdl:
LIRA -TEST
mnt-by:
LIRM -MNT
changed:
attendee@example.org 20130301
source:
TEST

mntner:
LIRM -MNT
descr:
Local Internet Registry Attendee Maintainer
admin-c:
LIRA -TEST
mnt-by:
LIRM -MNT
referral-by:
LIRM -MNT
auth:
MD5-PW $1$BhgnmQ44$sgcdj40h6vYVjdzxklIgx.
changed:
attendee@example.org 20130301
upd-to:
attendee@example.org
notify:
attendee@example.org
source:
TEST

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organisation:
ORG-LIRA -TEST
org-name:
Local Internet Registry Attendee Organisation
org-type:
LIR
address:
Singel 258, 1016 AB Amsterdam
phone:
+31205354444
fax-no:
+31205354444
e-mail:
training@example.org
admin-c:
LIRT1-TEST
tech-c:
LIRT1-TEST
ref-nfy:
notify@example.org
notify:
notify@example.org
mnt-ref:
LIRM1-MNT
mnt-by:
TEST-NCC-HM-MNT
changed:
trainer@example.org 20130301
source:
TEST

The following Internet resources are available for you to be used in the
exercises:

inetnum:
192. .0.0 - 192. .255.255
netname:
NL-RIPENCC-LIRA -20130301
org:
ORG-LIRA -TEST
descr:
Local Internet Registry Attendee Allocation
remarks:
Allocation used in the LIR training courses
country:
EU
admin-c:
LIRA -TEST
tech-c:
LIRA -TEST
status:
ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by:
TEST-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:
LIRM -MNT
mnt-routes:
LIRM -MNT
changed:
hostmaster@ripe.net 20130301
source:
TEST

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Test database
In the exercises, we will make use of the RIPE TEST Database. This is a
public system that acts and responds in exactly the same way as the RIPE
Database would do.

You can access the TEST Database by selecting the correct source in the
Webupdates or whois tools:

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Exercise 1: First Day at Work as an LIR contact

Task: Sort the tasks in the chronological order
The goal of this exercise is to learn which are the most important tasks when
working for an LIR, and which of these tasks need to be performed before
you are able to continue with other tasks.

Assumptions:
You have taken over the position of an ‘LIR contact’ in your company. Your
company is already a long-established LIR. The ‘LIR contact’ is responsible
for dealing with the RIPE NCC: requesting resources, maintaining the RIPE
Database records and so on.

Instructions:
During the course trainers will give you cards listing the 10 most important
tasks. With your group, sort the cards in the chronological order in which you
have to carry out tasks. Below is a table containing the statements in a
random order.

Tasks Order
Check your Assignment Window size
Correct invalid, unused and overlapping assignments in the
RIPE Database
Compare your assignment records with the RIPE Database
Ask the RIPE NCC to remove unused assignment approvals
from the registry file
Add your person object to the role object
Get an LIR Portal user account
Request resources if needed
Check what resources you have
Create a person object in the RIPE Database and protect it
Update the LIR contact list in the LIR Portal

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Exercise 2: Making Assignments

Task: Collect informations and document End User assignment
Assumptions:
You work for the LIR:

ORG-LIRA -TEST

Your RegID is

nl.lira

Your Assignment Window (AW) is /21.

Instructions:
• collect End User Information
• read the email, and ask questions from the “End User”
• document the End User request
• fill in the “PA Assignment Request Form”

End-User’s email:

Dear Sir / Madam,

We are a start-up Web hosting company (moving on from the web design business).
We would like to get address space from you and then we would hand back the
address space we currently have to our soon to be ex-ISP upstream provider -
BigNet (195.20.42.0/26).

We already have 150 web hosting clients that we would move to your network.
Additionally we also have 7 SSL web hosting clients that would need their own IP
addresses. We are planning on doubling our numbers every year.

For our supporting infrastructure we would need 10 fixed IP addresses too, to be

able to get our services up and running.

I hope to hear from you soon,

Marc Bromski (MB54321-RIPE)
Laika BV, Amsterdam
http://www.laika.example.com

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% Provider Aggregatable (PA) Assignment Request Form    

       GROUP  ___
     

% RIPE NCC members can use this form to request a PA assignment.

% Please see ripe-584 for instructions on how to complete this form.

#[GENERAL INFORMATION]#

% Please add your RegID.

request-type: pa-ipv4
form-version: 1.3
x-ncc-regid:

#[ADDRESS SPACE USER]#

%
% Who will use the requested address space?

legal-organisation-name:
organisation-location:
website-if-available:

% Does this End User already have address space that can be
% used for this assignment? (Yes/No)

space-available:

#[ADDRESSING PLAN]#
%
% How will the End User use this address space?
%
% Subnet Immediate Intermediate Entire
% Size Requirement Requirement Period Purpose
subnet:
subnet:
subnet:
totals:

number-of-subnets:

% Which netname will you use for this assignment?

netname:

% Will the End User return any address space?

address-space-returned:

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#[EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION]#
%
% What equipment will be used and how will it use the requested
% address space?

equipment-name:
manufacturer-name:
model-number:
other-data:

#[NETWORK DESCRIPTION]#
%
% Please add more information if you think it will help us understand
% this request.

#[NETWORK DIAGRAM]#
%
% Have you attached a network diagram to this request? (Yes/No)

diagram-attached:

#[END of REQUEST]#

Kind regards, (signature)

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Exercise 3: Registering the Assignment

Task: Register the Assignment in the TEST RIPE Database
Your task is to register an End User assignment from the previous exercise in
the TEST RIPE Database.

Assumptions:
You work for the LIR:

ORG-LIRA -TEST

Your request from previous exercise was approved.

Preparations:
• Find out the name and password of your maintainer object
• Find your person object
• Identify your IPv4 allocation object
• Choose prefix in your allocation suitable for assignment

Create inetnum object:

• Navigate to the Webupdates tool on http://www.ripe.net
• Click to choose the RIPE TEST Database radio button
• Click on “create object” and select “inetnum” as the object type
• Add prefix choosen for this assignment from your allocation
• Add person object as the tech-c of the new object
• Add customer person object as the admin-c of the new object
• Write down the netname for your newly created inetnum object:

netname:

• Which maintainer will you use to protect this new inetnum object?
• Create the object. Was it successful?

If you get any errors during this exercise:

• Did you select the RIPE TEST Database?

• Did you supply the correct password?

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