[db-wg] Help needed to delete an object via email

At 16:15 07/08/2015 +0200, denis wrote:

Thanks!  Good workaround.

-Hank

>HI Hank
>
>Just a note for the future. If you find yourself in this situation again 
>you can try doing an update on the object first to remove the problematic 
>"remarks:" attribute and then delete the object in a second step. This 
>work around often helps in these situations. It gets around the problems 
>of weird behaviour of mail clients.
>
>cheers
>denis
>
>On 07/08/2015 11:01, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>>At 10:32 07/08/2015 +0200, Edward Shryane wrote:
>>
>>Was finally able to delete it from a 3rd mail client - Outlook (Office
>>365 in the cloud).
>>
>>Feel free to try from Gmail to recreate the bug.
>>
>>-Hank
>>
>>>Good morning Hank,
>>>
>>>it appears that your mail client is wrapping the remarks line when it
>>>reaches the URL.  This produces an invalid RPSL object, and doesn't
>>>match the version in the database.
>>>
>>>Can you check your mail client settings?
>>>
>>>A workaround is to use another update mechanism (Syncupdates,
>>>webupdates or the REST API).
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Ed Shryane
>>>RIPE NCC
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On 7 Aug 2015, at 10:16, Hank Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > At 10:05 07/08/2015 +0200, Piotr Strzyzewski wrote:
>>> >> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:56:17AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>>> >> >> Are you absolutely sure that this is not due to some other reasons?
>>> >> >> I have "reproduced" your object under my ip space just a minute
>>>ago and
>>> >> >> was able to delete it without any problems via email interface.
>>>The only
>>> >> >> important difference is that it doesn't have LEGACY status. I have
>>> >> >> created it one more time - take a look at 83.230.58.0/24. Just
>>>let me
>>> >> >> know if you see any meaningful differences to 192.114.48.0/20.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Indeed your object looks correct and has the proper remarks
>>>line.   Someone
>>> >> > else encountered the same issue with a legacy object so the bug
>>>might be
>>> >> > specific to LEGACY objects only.
>>> >>
>>> >> I have created similar object under LEGACY space. Take a look at the
>>> >> 157.158.200.0/24. I was also able to delete it with email interface.
>>> >> Will keep them both for one day.
>>> >
>>> > Try deleting the 192.114.48.0/20 object (in correct pw).  I get:
>>> >
>>> > Delete FAILED: [inetnum] 192.114.48.0 - 192.114.63.255
>>> >
>>> > inetnum:        192.114.48.0 - 192.114.63.255
>>> > netname:        ISRAEL-SMALL-BLOCK10
>>> > descr:          Israel Inter-University Computation Center
>>> > country:        IL
>>> > admin-c:        HN293-RIPE
>>> > tech-c:         HN293-RIPE
>>> > org:            ORG-IIIC1-RIPE
>>> > status:         LEGACY
>>> > remarks:        For information on "status:" attribute read
>>> > https:
>>>//www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/faq/faq-status-values-legacy-resources
>>> > mnt-by:         AS378-MNT
>>> > mnt-lower:      AS378-MNT
>>> > changed:        hank at mail.iucc.ac.il 20050515
>>> > created:        1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
>>> > last-modified:  2014-05-27T13:18:49Z
>>> > source:         RIPE
>>> >
>>> > ***Error:   Authorisation for [inetnum] 192.114.48.0 -
>>>192.114.63.255 failed
>>> >            using "mnt-by:"
>>> >            not authenticated by: AS378-MNT
>>> >
>>> > ***Error:   Authorisation for [inetnum] 192.0.0.0 - 192.255.255.255
>>>failed
>>> >            using "mnt-lower:"
>>> >            not authenticated by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
>>> >
>>> > ***Error:   Authorisation for [inetnum] 192.0.0.0 - 192.255.255.255
>>>failed
>>> >            using "mnt-by:"
>>> >            not authenticated by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
>>> >
>>> > ***Error:   Object [inetnum] 192.114.48.0 - 192.114.63.255 doesn't
>>>match version
>>> >            in database
>>> >
>>> > See last error.
>>> >
>>> > I also get:
>>> >
>>> > DELETE REQUESTED FOR:
>>> >
>>> > inetnum:        192.114.48.0 - 192.114.63.255
>>> > netname:        ISRAEL-SMALL-BLOCK10
>>> > descr:          Israel Inter-University Computation Center
>>> > country:        IL
>>> > admin-c:        HN293-RIPE
>>> > tech-c:         HN293-RIPE
>>> > org:            ORG-IIIC1-RIPE
>>> > status:         LEGACY
>>> > remarks:        For information on "status:" attribute read
>>>https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/faq/faq-status-values-legacy-resources
>>> > mnt-by:         AS378-MNT
>>> > mnt-lower:      AS378-MNT
>>> > changed:        hank at mail.iucc.ac.il 20050515
>>> > created:        1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
>>> > last-modified:  2014-05-27T13:18:49Z
>>> > source:         RIPE
>>> >
>>> > ---
>>> > OBJECT MODIFICATION REQUESTED:
>>> >
>>> > @@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
>>> > status:         LEGACY
>>> > -remarks:        For information on "status:" attribute read
>>>https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/faq/faq-status-values-legacy-resources
>>> > +remarks:        For information on "status:" attribute read
>>> > +https:
>>>//www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/faq/faq-status-values-legacy-resources
>>> > mnt-by:         AS378-MNT
>>> >
>>> > -Hank
>>> >
>>> >
>>