ARIN whois server offline ?

Sat Jun 19 18:08:12 UTC 2004

Reachability to the network seems OK, but the server seems to time out.

marble% whois -h whois.arin.net 220.175.8.27
whois: connect(): Operation timed out
marble%

marble% traceroute whois.arin.net
traceroute to whois.arin.net (192.149.252.43), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets
  1  iolite4-fxp2 (199.212.134.10)  0.114 ms  0.105 ms  0.090 ms
  2  tor-hespler-360-mica (64.7.143.42)  3.105 ms  3.365 ms  3.691 ms
  3  h66-59-189-97.gtconnect.net (66.59.189.97)  4.509 ms  4.644 ms  3.871 ms
  4  216.18.63.93 (216.18.63.93)  15.021 ms  14.774 ms  15.044 ms
  5  POS4-0.PEERA-CHCGIL.IP.GROUPTELECOM.NET (66.59.191.86)  14.175 
ms  14.009 ms  14.556 ms
  6  p4-6-2-0.r01.chcgil01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.10.97)  14.892 
ms  14.477 ms  14.667 ms
  7  p16-2-0-0.r01.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.70)  14.680 
ms  14.497 ms  14.477 ms
  8  POS5-2.BR3.CHI2.ALTER.NET (204.255.174.233)  15.266 ms  15.298 
ms  14.956 ms
  9  0.so-5-2-0.XL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.68.6)  15.469 ms  14.989 
ms  15.546 ms
10  0.so-0-0-0.TL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.68.89)  15.618 ms  15.804 
ms  16.736 ms
11  0.so-3-0-0.TL2.DCA6.ALTER.NET (152.63.19.170)  34.436 ms  34.240 
ms  34.352 ms
12  0.so-7-0-0.CL2.DCA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.32.181)  34.680 ms  35.498 
ms  35.267 ms
13  194.ATM5-0.GW4.DCA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.37.65)  35.113 ms  35.455 
ms  35.452 ms
14  arin-gw2.customer.alter.net (65.207.88.74)  110.848 ms  37.177 
ms  38.229 ms
15  *^C
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Sentex Communications,                            mike at sentex.net
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