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
-- Marco Davids / SARA - Academic Computing Services Amsterdam
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