On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:38:59PM -0700, Rodney Joffe wrote:
I hate co-incidences.
I don't think it's coincidental. Well, maybe it was... Using the default server that ships with Red Hat Linux's whois, I got that message too. Using rs8.internic.net, one of the other names in the "hunt group", worked, though.
At the same time as this story appeared today http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,30366,00.html?st.ne.140.head whois queries started returning:
* * WELCOME to InterNIC Registration Services * * Sorry, the system load is temporarily too heavy. * * Please wait a while and try again. Thanks *
It's currently 12:34am EST. and the response is still mostly the same.
A query still needs 5-10 attempts before a server responds.
Dig used to (a couple of weeks ago) show a bunch of servers. Now there is only 1: 198.41.0.6
Is anyone else having this problem?
Does anyone else have a solution?
We're trying to track down the source of a dos attack, and this kind of screwing around to find contact data isn't helpful...
The computers are rs[0-8].internic.net. whois.internic.net is supposed to work too, but I always forget to use it :) and it's not the compiled-in default in my particular copy of whois. Recompile whois and set the default host to whois.internic.net and you may have better luck. -- Steve Sobol [sjsobol@nacs.net] Part-time Support Droid [support@nacs.net] NACS Spaminator [abuse@nacs.net] Proud resident of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the coolest place on earth. http://www.ClevelandHeights.com