APNIC WHOIS Byron Ellacott, Technical Director

George Michaelson, APNIC R&D

The APNIC software ecosystem

ARMS

MyAPNIC

Ticketing

Registry

DNS

RPKI Finance

WHOIS

The APNIC software ecosystem

ARMS

MyAPNIC

Ticketing

Registry

DNS

RPKI Finance

WHOIS

Whois is itself a complex system

WHOIS Query

Mirrors

rDNS Mail updates

ARMS

MyAPNIC

Whois functional elements

Update

NRTM

Query

MyAPNIC

Update

APNIC Master WHOIS eMail

ARMS

Master Database Source: APNIC

NRTM

NRTM

APNIC Master WHOIS

NRTM feed

NIR

IRR

Query

NRTM feed

Server Pool Load Balancers

IPv4

IPv6 Internet

SQL Replication

Collaboration

•  RIPE Codebase – APNIC Contributes Initial RDAP development – RDAP Refinements, feature improvements by RIPE NCC

•  RIPE NCC Code shared with AfriNIC •  Github hosted repositories of code

–  http://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ –  http://github.com/APNIC-net/

Service Statistics

Service Status

•  Running on 4 query nodes, behind dual F-5 load balance

•  Service available on IPv4 and IPv6 •  See slow steady growth in base level load

– Daily load profile varies 2x from 120 to 250qps

•  Load on machines (cpu, network, memory) negligible

Sources APNIC   AUNIC  CHINANET   CNNIC   IRINN  JPIRR   JPNIC   KRNIC   RADB   TWNIC  

as-­‐block  aut-­‐num  domain  inet6num  inetnum   irt   key-­‐cert  mntner  person   role  

113   8,132  165,283   60,159  861,603   6,315   91   17,617  305,795   4,564  

as-­‐set   inet-­‐rtr  peering-­‐set  route-­‐set   route   route6  618   4   6   104  85,338  53,106  

Resource Management

Internet Routing Registry Additions

Source APNIC

Service Improvement

•  How can we deliver better performance for end-users? –  Individual query now optimized, hardware performing below peak

capacity network not congested –  RTT next obvious target

•  Geographical Service distribution –  End of 2014 deliverable –  Place query nodes closer to people performing queries –  Looking to use ‘platform as a service’ partners to deliver –  Data distributed from APNIC