Hi, On 2003-12-28 18:44:51 +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:43:52AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
An object can have a reference to itself, so that we don't have the chicken-egg problem. You can create your first mntner without referential integrity problems (of course, you have to create the person/role objects that are referenced from the mntner beforehand).
and, pray tell, what is the mntner of that/those person/role objects? and how is that mntner created?
Isn't it possible to create a person without any mntner? (It used to be possible, long in the past, but I'm not sure about the current rules)
It is still possible --the "mnt-by:" attribute is optional in person/role objects. Thus you can create person/role objects in an empty whois database. Regards,
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