Problem with whois.ripe.net?

Wed Sep 15 19:33:48 UTC 2004

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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