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Re: Problem with whois.ripe.net?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Wed Sep 15 15:51:13 2004

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:50:20 +0200
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: Greg Schwimer <gschwimer@godaddy.com>, Jeje <jeje@jeje.org>,
	nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0409152032360.23011@fogarty.jakma.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On 15.09.2004 21:33 Paul Jakma wrote:
> 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.
> 

But then you get a notification and not only a simple timeout ... iirc


Arnold


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