Philip, from what I've gathered the whois server was busy at the time and restricted whois to 4 of my servers on different IP's in different locations in different countries, and it just so happens that the DNC had also user up all their resources at the time and 4 other people on the list had used up all their resources. Their page showed all was good and there was no problems because everyone had used all their resources. Excuse all the resources references, but it appears that the whois server was under heavy load from 0.0.0.0/0 I gave up finding an answer because it was fixed 5 mins after my email so was only a 20min outage to _me_and_others_. Matter over and done with unless there is a _real_ answer Thanks B
Well, how about the queries Barry did on the DNC website itself - from your own IP address?
If a failure to respond, weather through excessive load or some other reason, is not an outage, then what is?
-----Original Message----- From: DNS [mailto:dns(a)nzrs.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 12:47 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] NZSRS Whois server 440 Request Denied
There were no outages to the .nz whois service yesterday. When the whois service is under load, requests may be restricted or dropped.
If you have any concerns about the service from your location you can provide your IP address to the DNC office and they will investigate your issue.
Cheers
Dave Baker
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