ARIN whois dump URL at irrexplorer.nlnog.net is 404 about arouteserver

[ymer66]

The download seems to be available again. Anyhow seems to be a good time to prepare for an alternative source direct a ARIN.

[bluikko]

I guess it was just an oversight when the site was being worked on / redirected.

4 hours after I prodded one of the admins it was acknowledged and fixed quickly. I guess it's a pretty good home for the file or at least "the support" is available and responsive if/when problems do happen.

[pierky]

Hello everyone,

thanks for reporting this issue.

The code and the configuration are already able to deal with a different URL to download the ARIN DB from. The config parameter to change in that case is filtering.irrdb.use_arin_bulk_whois_data.source (and similarly for use_registrobr_bulk_whois_data). In 9aff0c0 I've modified the error message that is shown when issues like this one happen, in a way to provide a hint to the user. The new error message looks like this now:

ARouteServer 2021-07-18 11:10:01,777 ERROR Error while retrieving ARIN Whois DB
dump from http://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/static/dumps/arin-whois-originas.json.bz2:
[reason of the error] - The error occurred while loading the IRR data from 
http://irrexplorerAA.nlnog.net/static/dumps/arin-whois-originas.json.bz2.
If the data was moved to a different location, it is possible to adjust the
configuration by changing the value of 'filtering.irrdb.use_arin_bulk_whois_data.source'
inside the general.yml file.

Since the issue is no longer existing and the original URL is working, I'll not change the default one shipped with the default config of ARouteServer (even because I'm not aware of that DB being available elsewhere at the moment).

Going to close this for the time being. Please reopen if you think there's more to do here.