"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.
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Regards, Andrei Robachevsky DB Group Manager RIPE NCC