Hello, some notes on what i called "sync" in the last e-mail: Synchronisation from the privat-db to a mirror-server can work like this: Step-1: Script connects to db with private objects via NRTM and gets a list of objects updates. Step-2: Script filters private objects and attributes and replaces the "SOURCE:" value. Step-3: The new Object-Stream is uploaded to the mirror-server (not the client, like RIPE) either using e-mail (we are using this for updating RIPE) or using the "dbupdate" utility directly. best regards, Arnd -- NetHead Network Design and Security Arnd Vehling av@nethead.De Gummersbacherstr. 27 Phone: +49 221 8809210 50679 Cologne, Germany Fax : +49 221 8809212