Ok, maybe this didn't get out quite right, but they don't mirror the is-db and they don't need to, all the domains except the is tld are only in the is-db and thus the person objects only need to exist there, people should see the start of the whois query that is made to whois.ripe.net for .is domains and look the person objects up in the appropriate database, and if they do a query without -r they get the objects in the first query anyways. This is prepended to all .is queries in the ripe-db: The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database. It has been obtained by querying a remote server: (whois.isnet.is) at port 43. To see the object stored in the RIPE database use the -R flag in your query. Oli On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
without ripe mirroring IS, how can person:s be in in the ripe database with the source: IS?
randy
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