[48003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RADB mirroring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon May 20 16:36:04 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:35:34 -0700
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> An IRR not mirrored by the RADB (to act as a member) and not
> mirroring every RR mirrored by the RADB (to hijack the top level)
> seems pointless.
auto-config tools, such as ratoolset, do not use the mirrored data,
only the origin data. one specifies the list of registries to
search. so, mirroring by the irr is neither necessary nor
sufficient, though it can be convenient for lookup by wetware.
randy
