Just to make it clear to those that replied, a few people did notice the same thing as me however it was fixed 5 mins after my email. It was down for about 15 mins prior to me emailing, however may have been longer but that's when I noticed it. I am aware of the whois limits and this was not the cause, I ran the whois from 3 different IP addresses on different servers and different locations, I also tested from the dnc.org.nz website, all of which failed. The problem is now resolved so we'll leave it there. Thanks B
Barry Murphy wrote:
Anyone know what's up with the whois server?
Tried from 3 hosts and also dnc.org.nz , all result in a request denied for any domain I query.
query_datetime: 2007-11-12T12:50:44+13:00 domain_name: unix.co.nz query_status: 440 Request Denied
I cannot see any planned work and "There are no known problems, the WHOIS server is on-line." - http://www.nzrs.net.nz/notices/index.shtml
Ok from here - are you running lots of queries from a script?
You've probably been blocked.
http://dnc.org.nz/content/*whois*.pdf <-- Section 6