Den 1/7/12 6:12 PM, skrev Pawel Tyll:
Hello people (and ticket bots :>),
I wanted to do some BGP filtering automation today, learned some interesting things in the process. I decided on setting up a local mirror of RIPE IRR and was quite puzzled with reasoning behind this:
http://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/nrtm-mirroring
So, I can download the whole database snapshot for free from ftp.ripe.net, wasting bandwidth and other resources, or on the other hand I can pay for doing things the right and efficient way, which in the process is effectively cheaper for all involved parties.
So the question is - what gives? :) - why does RIPE insist that I download>200MB of compressed data instead of catching up probably few hundred KB of daily changes?
--Pawel.
I'm quite sure it is more expensive to administrate and receive a stream of changes than downloading a static file with no administration:) Bandwidth is cheap and static content scales extremely well.