Is this normal behaviour?

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

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