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.

Jeje wrote:

--On mercredi 15 septembre 2004 11:16 -0700 Greg Schwimer <gschwimer@godaddy.com> wrote:

I'm seeing this from multiple locations.  Anyone else?  I get a similar response from their
web whois as well.

whois -h whois.ripe.net <any IP address, RIPE or otherwise>

% This is the RIPE Whois secondary server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html

inetnum:      0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255
netname:      IANA-BLK


This is what you get by default if the block you requested is not RIPE's

Are you sure you're requesting a RIPE's block ?

Jerome.