Re: Is this normal behaviour?
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:07:08 +0200
- Organization: RIPE NCC
Hi,
Marco Davids wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> A routine check on as-macro AS-EURONET on the RIPE-database returned an
> unexpected result.
>
> The same check on the RADB whoisd (whois.raddb.net) however, returned the
> expected result together with two unexpected ones.
>
> Investigation learned us that someone deleted an unprotected as-macro on
> the RIPE-database. It seems it is fixed now.
>
> But what I would like to know is to what extend the several whois
> databases a synchronised, in other words; how reliable is the information
> retrieved from it? And... is the as-set object supposed to be unique or
> not?
Currently RIPE whoisd server doesn't mirror RADB. The reason for this is
that RADB is a RPSL database while the RIPE one is not (yet).
However mirroring a database does not mean that integrity, auth, etc.
checks are performed across the databases. That's why, though according
to RPSL as-set attribute is a class key and should be unique, the query
result contains 3 objects (but all from different databases/sources).
Regards,
Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC
>
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> Marco Davids / SARA - Academic Computing Services Amsterdam
>
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