Hi Hank, Colleagues,

> On 28 Feb 2025, at 09:23, Hank Nussbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> ...
> I should note that even though I get the error messages of:
> 
> Update of domain failed, please see below for more details
> 
> Unexpected error: please retry later

I investigated further. The "Unexpected error: please retry later" message is 
generated by the DB web application, not by Whois. The DB web application calls 
Whois to perform the update with a 1 minute request timeout. I found that twice 
when you updated a domain object around 08:15 UTC, Whois took just over a 
minute each time to respond. For domain object updates, Whois calls the 
Zonemaster DNS check service (https://zonemaster.ripe.net/), which can take 
some time.

I propose that we fix this by making the request timeout longer in the DB web 
application (say 5 minutes). 

> 
> the update did go through and was updated!  Weird.
> 

The Whois update request still succeeded because the DB application gives up 
after a minute, but the Whois update will continue even if the client HTTP 
request is interrupted (closed).

Thanks Hank for reporting this issue.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC

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