Re: Problem with whois.ripe.net?

[Arnold Nipper <arnold () nipper de>]

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