Problem with whois.ripe.net?

Wed Sep 15 19:50:20 UTC 2004

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