Empty prefixes.yml file generated - Temporary RIPEstat outage

Describe what you would like to achieve Option for providing verbose output for debugging when generating prefixes

Describe why the current solution (if any) is not satisfactory There seems to be a problem with stat.ripe.net at the moment which is causing all generated prefix lists to be empty. This obviously isn’t a problem caused by BGPalerter, but it may have been easier to troubleshoot if there was a way to get more information on the data which is being returned from stat.ripe.net and what BGPalerter is doing when processing that data.

Provide an example This is what I see currently, which doesn’t really give much to go on:

~# bgpalerter generate -a 41000 -o prefixes.yml
Done!
~# cat prefixes.yml
{}

Ideally there would be something like a --verbose or --debug option which would help to see the details of what is happening behind the scenes and track down where the problem is.

Unfortunately as the connection to stat.ripe.net is over HTTPS, I couldn’t even see the data in a packet capture.

Your information Edward Dore, Freethought Internet Limited, AS41000

[massimocandela]

In addition to writing which prefixes are detected (already available), I added:

• A warning, as suggested in my first message, about the list of prefixes being empty.
• The option -D to enable the debug mode. You will receive all http queries issued (urls).
• The option -H to generate the prefixes with historical visibility data (prefixes announced in the last week).

I think this is a practical and effective solution.

[massimocandela]

Btw, RIPEstat is working again!