Re: ARIN Services

and if all the registries participate in a cross-mirroring program, then all would be well, no? If you mirror correctly, it doesn't much matter _which_ host you hit.

<CYNICISM> Eh? You mean you won't have to know which registry to hit to look up an address beforehand? Where would the fun be in that? </CYNICISM> The ARIN database and the RIPE/APNIC databases are incompatible (something that was going to be fixed in the RIDE (registry information data exchange) WG, but it seems to have run into a snag or something), thus mirroring would be a bit more work than one might imagine. Regards, -drc