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Re: Creating a Backup IRRD Box

  • From: Larry J. Blunk
  • Date: Wed Nov 13 12:48:28 2002

> 
> 
> What is the best way to accomplish keeping two IRRD
> boxes in sync?  I have a primary and a backup machine
> in different locations.
> 
> One choice could be sending the email updates to both
> boxes and just have the primary box respond and have
> the secondary box operate in "silent" mode somehow.

  irr_rpsl_submit supports a '-x' option which will disable
the sending of notifications.   So you should be able to
use this option on the secondary box.

> 
> Another choice would be to somehow use the irrd 
> mirroring software to update the secondary box.
> 

   We currently use mirroring (with a short mirror
checking interval) to keep a backup copy of the RADB
registry.


 --Larry Blunk
   Merit

> Is anyone currently maintaining two irrd server 
> machines in this way?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cleve...
> 
> Cleve Mickles
> Network Architecture
> America Online, Network Operations
>   


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