[db-wg] improve --list-sources query to display latest serial?

Dear Ed,

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 16:20, Edward Shryane <eshryane at ripe.net> wrote:

>
> this is due to a difference between the Whois Query service (port 43) and
> NRTM (port 4444).
>
> On 28 Aug 2018, at 00:33, Job Snijders via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> It appears there currently is no easy way to retrieve the current serial
> from the RIPE DB. We're implementing some software to monitor whether
> our local mirror is wildly out of sync with the RIPE DB or not.
>
>
> The current serial is only returned from the NRTM service (whois.ripe.net:4444)
> by using the "-q sources" command.
>


Thanks! This is a lot better than my horrid one-liner :-)

Kind regards,

Job

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