[74163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problem with whois.ripe.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Wed Sep 15 15:35:05 2004
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:33:48 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: Greg Schwimer <gschwimer@godaddy.com>
Cc: Jeje <jeje@jeje.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <41488DFB.4050404@godaddy.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Greg Schwimer wrote:
> Yes, I verified it. Oddly, it was preceeded by not being able to run a
> whois against whois.ripe.net for about 20 minutes from my location
> (connection timed out). Seems to be working fine now. Must be the
> gremlins.
Or maybe you got banned for too many connections/minute or requesting
too much data. RIPE auto-block whois queries based on both criteria,
iirc.
regards,
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Fortune:
Stupidity is its own reward.
