RE: FW: FAILED: nic-hdl: ebais-test

["Erik Bais" erik@localhost]

Thanks for the reply. 

The solution used was : 

Use the keyword UPDATE in the subject on the creation of a new person.
And I used the none-harassing 4 letter word : bais 

So the new handle is bais-ripe  

http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois?bais-ripe

Thanks for reply.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Erik Bais
IS 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Kerr [
	    
	    
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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:34 PM
To: Erik Bais
Cc: db-help@localhost
Subject: Re: FW: FAILED: nic-hdl: ebais-test


Erik Bais,

On 2002-09-13 12:27:03 +0200, Erik Bais wrote:
> 
> I know there is a way of adding a NICHANDLE to the person template
> that doesn't have the trailing numbers. 
> 
> Can anyone give me a hint ( solution )  how to do this ?

If you do:

$ whois -v person

You can get the rules, which I'll reprint here:

    From 2 to 4 characters optionally followed by up to 5 digits
    optionally followed by a source specification.  Source
    specification starts with "-" followed by source name
    up to 9-character length.

This means 2 to 4 letters.  The source specification is optional, or
it may be:

RIPE      
ORG       # used at ARIN for organizations
ARIN      # used at ARIN for persons
RADB      # North American routing registry
APNIC     # used at APNIC for person and role objects
RIPN      # used by the Russian academic network

In the test database, you can also use TEST (as you have done).

We also allow any 2-character country code:

AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AN AO AQ AR AS AT AU AW AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH 
BI BJ BM BN BO BR BS BT BV BW BY BZ CA CC CD CF CG CH CI CK CL CM CN
CO CR CU CV CX CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DO DZ EC EE EG EH ER ES ET EU FI FJ
FK FM FO FR FX GA GB GD GE GF GH GI GL GM GN GP GQ GR GS GT GU GW GY
HK HM HN HR HT HU ID IE IL IN IO IQ IR IS IT JM JO JP KE KG KH KI KM
KN KP KR KW KY KZ LA LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD MG MH MK
ML MM MN MO MP MQ MR MS MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NC NE NF NG NI NL NO
NP NR NU NZ OM PA PE PF PG PH PK PL PM PN PR PS PT PW PY QA RE RO RU
RW SA SB SC SD SE SG SH SI SJ SK SL SM SN SO SR ST SV SY SZ TC TD TF
TG TH TJ TK TM TN TO TP TR TT TV TW TZ UA UG UM US UY UZ VA VC VE VG
VI VN VU WF WS YE YT YU ZA ZM ZW

In your case, you used:

nic-hdl:        ebais-test

The problem is that this has 5 characters before the source
specification, and is therefore not allowed.  You can either truncate
this in some way:

nic-hdl:        eb-test
nic-hdl:        erik-test
nic-hdl:        bais-test

Or you can try using 31337 ("elite") letters:

nic-hdl:        ebai5-test
nic-hdl:        EBA15-TEST

Personally, I recommend using AUTO-1, and letting the server pick your
nic-hdl value, e.g. EB3-TEST or something like that.  The nic-hdl is
mostly useful as a unique identifier within the database.

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Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC