Reachability to the network seems OK, but the server seems to time out. marble% whois -h whois.arin.net 220.175.8.27 whois: connect(): Operation timed out marble% marble% traceroute whois.arin.net traceroute to whois.arin.net (192.149.252.43), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets 1 iolite4-fxp2 (199.212.134.10) 0.114 ms 0.105 ms 0.090 ms 2 tor-hespler-360-mica (64.7.143.42) 3.105 ms 3.365 ms 3.691 ms 3 h66-59-189-97.gtconnect.net (66.59.189.97) 4.509 ms 4.644 ms 3.871 ms 4 216.18.63.93 (216.18.63.93) 15.021 ms 14.774 ms 15.044 ms 5 POS4-0.PEERA-CHCGIL.IP.GROUPTELECOM.NET (66.59.191.86) 14.175 ms 14.009 ms 14.556 ms 6 p4-6-2-0.r01.chcgil01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.10.97) 14.892 ms 14.477 ms 14.667 ms 7 p16-2-0-0.r01.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.70) 14.680 ms 14.497 ms 14.477 ms 8 POS5-2.BR3.CHI2.ALTER.NET (204.255.174.233) 15.266 ms 15.298 ms 14.956 ms 9 0.so-5-2-0.XL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.68.6) 15.469 ms 14.989 ms 15.546 ms 10 0.so-0-0-0.TL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.68.89) 15.618 ms 15.804 ms 16.736 ms 11 0.so-3-0-0.TL2.DCA6.ALTER.NET (152.63.19.170) 34.436 ms 34.240 ms 34.352 ms 12 0.so-7-0-0.CL2.DCA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.32.181) 34.680 ms 35.498 ms 35.267 ms 13 194.ATM5-0.GW4.DCA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.37.65) 35.113 ms 35.455 ms 35.452 ms 14 arin-gw2.customer.alter.net (65.207.88.74) 110.848 ms 37.177 ms 38.229 ms 15 *^C marble% -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike