[16306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Apr 19 20:43:10 1998
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:28:31 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804191211.VAA03208@teckla.apnic.net>; from "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net> on Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 08:47:56PM +0800
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 08:47:56PM +0800, David R. Conrad wrote:
> >and if all the
> >registries participate in a cross-mirroring program, then all would be
> >well, no? If you mirror correctly, it doesn't much matter _which_ host
> >you hit.
>
> <CYNICISM>
> Eh? You mean you won't have to know which registry to hit to look up an
> address beforehand? Where would the fun be in that?
> </CYNICISM>
:-)
> The ARIN database and the RIPE/APNIC databases are incompatible (something
> that was going to be fixed in the RIDE (registry information data exchange)
> WG, but it seems to have run into a snag or something), thus mirroring
> would be a bit more work than one might imagine.
Forgive me, I wasn't clear: if each registry, in addition to it's own
database lookup services, operates mirrors of the database lookup
services of the other registries: IE: I can't get to whois.arin.net, so
I go to ap.arin.net, which lives at the APNIC, on their network space.
Clearer?
Cheers,
-- jra
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