other network problems with hosts at internic.net (was: was i asleep when the gtld servers had the worse problem today? )

Fri Nov 13 19:17:17 UTC 1998

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg A. Woods
> 
> Just to add a little fuel to the fire:
> 
> I've been experiencing TCP related connection failures from most/all
> hosts at internic.net, with at least whois and http (though not
SMTP).
> 
> For example when I attempt to do a whois I'll normally only get back
the
> first two lines of output (i.e. "\nRegistrant:\n").  Then the
connection
> hangs and times out.  From my point of view it seems that the
connection
> has indeed been cut off.  The weird part is that this only happens
for
> NetBSD-1.3.x hosts on my network.  BSDI BSD/OS 1.1, Ultrix, and at
one
> point SunOS-4.1 hosts were all receiving complete output from whois
> queries.  [...]

I've noticed the same thing, but on a FreeBSD server.  My personal
Linux box, and the Solaris box here both work fine.

Hmmm.
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