[122173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ve WHOIS Down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Mon Feb 8 22:29:20 2010
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B704629.33E4.0097.0@globalstar.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:28:49 +1300
To: nanOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/02/2010, at 2:13 PM, Crist Clark wrote:
> For want of a better place to ask, I'm wondering if anyone monitoring
> this list might know what is up with the registro.nic.ve web site.
> The WHOIS at www.nic.ve refers to that site, and it appears to be down
> (for me and downforeveryoneorjustme.com too). Doing old fashioned
> native WHOIS isn't working any better.
$ whois -h whois.nic.ve nic.ve =20
Servidor Whois de NIC-Venezuela (.VE)
Este servidor contiene informacion autoritativa exclusivamente de =
dominios .VE
Cualquier consulta sobre este servicio, puede hacerla al correo =
electronico whois@nic.ve
... etc.
I get a proper response, anyway.
There is no A record in the DNS for ve.whois-servers.net, which is what =
my client tries first. Perhaps this is where the confusion lies.
--
Nathan Ward=
