[27436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Funk *that* (was Re: whois broke again?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Feb 20 01:43:20 2000
Message-Id: <200002200641.e1K6f5c26144@black-ice.cc.vt.edu>
To: "Leonard, Jason M." <Jason.Leonard@wcom.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:32:35 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:41:05 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:32:35 EST, "Leonard, Jason M." <Jason.Leonard@wcom.net> said:
> How hard could it be to maintain a mirror or something close to a mirror?
> I'm willing to donate a box and a few hours a week. Email me off list with
> your input and I'll post the results.
A mirror would help if the primary server was unreachable.
The problem being reported NOW is the spewage of data that claims
to be correct. Unless you run your mirror in a "pull, wait 8 hours
for verification, and THEN commit" mode, the mirror will be spewing
the same broken data.
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
