About PeeringDB

How can PeeringDB help me to interconnect?

Getting started

New to PeeringDB? Register an account, then follow the HOWTO for your role:

• Network Operator
• Exchange Operator
• Facility or Campus Operator
• Carrier Operator

See all HOWTOs for more guides, our glossary of PeeringDB terms, and guides in other languages below.

Policies

• By using this service, you agree to adhere to PeeringDB's Acceptable Use Policy.
• The Admin Committee Guidelines and Criteria for Approving Networks, IXPs, and Facilities documents PeeringDB’s registration approval process.

Getting help

• Please log bugs and feature requests at GitHub.
• Questions, comments and everything else should go to support@peeringdb.com.

Mailing lists

We have changed the way in which PeeringDB will be announcing future enhancements, changes, maintenance windows, and other information. If you would like to be notified of certain events, or participate in certain discussions, please subscribe to one of the following email lists:

• PeeringDB Announce
  All PeeringDB administrative announcement information, such as upgrades, maintenances, outages, etc.

• PeeringDB Governance
  Discussion list for PeeringDB governance issues. This is a community-based effort, the community’s input will help guide the future of the PeeringDB as it has always done.

• PeeringDB Technical
  Discussion about PeeringDB technical topics.

• PeeringDB Translate
  Discussions about PeeringDB translations.

• PeeringDB User-Discuss
  All other topics.

Our goal is to give you all the information you want, and no more. Please subscribe to any of these lists you feel are appropriate, or none. You will still be able to use the database even if you are not subscribed to any lists.

Quick API start

PeeringDB is available at https://www.peeringdb.com/ with self-describing API docs at https://www.peeringdb.com/apidocs/. More thorough docs are at API Specs, but in a nutshell, just prepend the URL with api/ to get that object in JSON.

For example:
https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1
becomes:
https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net/1

List all via API by taking the id off:
https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net

Local database replication is accomplished with this command line tool, please see the documentation for more information.

Guides in other languages

• [en] PeeringDB information registration guide and facility presence for NNI's - Julimar Lunguinho Mendes
• [es] Guía corta para uso de peeringdb.com - Fabián Mejía
• [es] Guía de registro de información en PeeringDB y presencia en facilities para NNI's - Julimar Lunguinho Mendes
• [pt-BR] Guia de cadastro de Carrier no PeeringDB - Julimar Lunguinho Mendes
• [pt-BR] Guia de cadastro de informações no PeeringDB e presença em facility para NNI's - Julimar Lunguinho Mendes

Learn more

• Release notes and schedule — upcoming releases, and a summary of what has changed in PeeringDB software releases.
• Tools — tools developed by PeeringDB users.
• Presentations — tutorials, workshops, and presentations given at events around the world.
• Beta server — runs the latest beta software, with full access over HTTP and the API. Changes made there are local to the beta server only. The latest changes redirects to the GitHub issues documenting them.
• Source code audit — a Third Party Memo from a full audit of PeeringDB's source code, commissioned in 2018.
• Historical data — MySQL dumps from July 29, 2010 to March 14, 2016 are archived by CAIDA at http://data.caida.org/datasets/peeringdb-v1/.

How you can help

• Check your entries and make sure everything looks correct

• Port any scripts to the new API

• Send us feedback

• Improve these docs

• Add or improve a translation

Thanks for your feedback, we look forward to hearing from you!