Re: Migration issues: route creation

[Andrei Robachevsky <]

"Lu, Ping" wrote:
> 
> Further into the subject.
> 
> About the new RIPE-DB software V3.X, is that a requirement when mirroring we
> have to import
> ALL the objects in order to satisfy the database referencial integerity ?
> 
> For example, when we mirror with RIPE, if the route object point to a mntner
> object (thru mnt-by ) do we have to have that mntner object imported also ?
> 

You can configure the software to resolve these references internally
(by creating "dummy" objects). However, you cannot request "selective
mirroring" for a particular types of objects.

> If the answer is YES then does a mirroring agreement mean we have to share
> all the objects ?
>
Referential integrity needs to be satisfied only within a single source.
That is TEST1-MNT with RADB source and TEST1-MNT with the RIPE one are
in fact different objects.

 
> Ping Lu
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> 

Regards,


Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC