<div dir="ltr">+1 for removing "holes" attribute. </div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:59 PM Jens Ott - Opteamax GmbH via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Ed, > > Whois does validate the holes attribute when creating or updating a route/route6 object, but these invalid values were added before this rule was added (in 2009 or earlier). The attributes of the object I observed, say it was created in 2011 and modified in 2017. > > Unfortunately, no cleanup was done when this rule was implemented, but in recent times we try to do this. I will also contact the maintainers of these route objects and ask them to fix the holes attribute(s). > > In general, if you are parsing RIPE database objects, be sure to check for invalid values. That's what we do ... we silently drop any object containing invalid values and do not accept them at all. This one only came to my attention as it was just parsed while I increased log-level to debug and live-watched the logfile. > > Thanks for your feedback. It's in my own interest ;) .... and yes ... I also give a +1 for removing the holes attribute completely ;) Best regards Jens -- Jens Ott Geschäftsführer Opteamax GmbH Simrockstr. 4b 53619 Rheinbreitbach Tel.: +49 2224 969500 Fax: +49 2224 97691059 Email: <a href="mailto:jo@opteamax.de" target="_blank">jo@opteamax.de</a> HRB: 23144, Amtsgericht Montabaur Geschäftsführer: Jens Ott Umsatzsteuer-ID.: DE264133989 </blockquote></div>