InterNIC mail problems?

Thu Sep 12 06:22:51 UTC 1996

Speaking of screwed whois, have you noticed an increasing number of 
connection refused errors when trying to look at whois information? No 
more of those "Too busy" messages, just a refusal. Even their CGI/WWW 
based whois tool comes back blank half the time.

-Deepak.

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Eric Kozowski wrote:

> 
> Is anyone else having problems sending mail to the InterNIC?  I have stuff in
> the queue for them for 19 hours now. The queue shows the following error:
> 
> (Deferred: Connection reset by peer with rs.internic.net.)
> 
> Also a telnet to port 25 on rs.internic.net produces the following:
> 
> % telnet rs.internic.net 25
> Trying 198.41.0.5 ...
> Connected to rs.internic.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> This makes it hard to get them to correct screwed up whois entries :-O
> 
> -- 
> Eric Kozowski                    Senior Network Engineer
> eric at structured.net              Structured Network Systems, Inc.
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