I get it too, but the web page still works fine : http://rs.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl Maybe a box died. Matt Levine wrote:

Anyone know what's up with ARIN? Are they getting flooded?

Been getting this on whois queries for last hour or so:

* * WELCOME to ARIN Registration Services * * Sorry, the system load is temporarily too heavy. * * Please wait a while and try again. Thanks *

and/or socket times out.

Regards, Matt

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