RADB mirroring

Jake Khuon khuon at NEEBU.Net
Mon May 20 21:45:42 UTC 2002


### On Mon, 20 May 2002 13:35:34 -0700, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> casually
### decided to expound upon "Peter E. Fry" <pfry at swbell.net> the following
### thoughts about "Re: RADB mirroring":

RB> > An IRR not mirrored by the RADB (to act as a member) and not
RB> > mirroring every RR mirrored by the RADB (to hijack the top level)
RB> > seems pointless.
RB> 
RB> auto-config tools, such as ratoolset, do not use the mirrored data,
RB> only the origin data.  one specifies the list of registries to
RB> search.  so, mirroring by the irr is neither necessary nor
RB> sufficient, though it can be convenient for lookup by wetware.

RADB and other IRRs running IRRd accept a "!s" command to set (change from
default) the specified sources (including mirrored sources).  The return for
each query is done on a first-hit matching mechanism.  One may conceivably
switch/modify search orders prior to each query.  IRRToolSet (formerly
RAToolSet) has the capability of specifying a different IRR server but this
means one would incur a penalty for closing and reopening connections
between switching servers.  It is far better (and friendlier to the IRRs)
from a performance standpoint to keep persistant connections to a single
server that is fully mirroring.


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