Mirror Reflector
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The RIP server can only mirror a RPSL stream. If you want to mirror a
RIPE-181 database (like the current RIPE Database at whois.ripe.net), you
need to run a "mirror reflector". This utility can also be used to convert
or filter the NRTM stream that is not compliant with RPSL.

Mirror reflector (mr) is a tiny program, provided in the distribution under
"bin/mr", which connects to a specified NRTM server (-h host -p port) and
accepts requests from a RPSL NRTM client (-l listen_port). It can obviously
run in the NRTM client host itself.

After receiving a request, the mirror reflector converts the data stream
on the fly using a specified converter (-f converter); in the case of
RIPE181 to RPSL, you can use the "ripe2rpsl" perl script.

Your RIP server needs then to connect to the reflector instead of the real
server, so that it gets a converted RPSL stream.

