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