Dear Ed, On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 16:20, Edward Shryane <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >
