[48013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RADB mirroring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Prior)
Mon May 20 20:20:12 2002
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:49:32 +0930
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
From: Mark Prior <mrp@mrp.net>
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At 1:35 PM -0700 20/5/02, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 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.
I think you will find that they can be configured to use different
sources but they are at the same registry so you need to find a
registry that mirrors all the sources you want to query.
Mark.
