Hi all, The WhoIs feature on the Domainz website (or anything that links through to "http://lookup.domainz.net.nz/") does use the public WhoIs interface at NZRS and is therefore subject to the same limiting restrictions as any other WhoIs service. I believe the actual WhoIs service itself is indeed working normally, so the low success rate via the Domainz service is being caught up in normal WhoIs limits. Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Simon Byrnand [mailto:simon(a)igrin.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 20 October 2005 11:53 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] um, whats wrong with whois? At 14:11 8/10/2005, Jeremy Brake wrote:

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I get request denied from different hosts I try All the .nz domain suffix

version: 1.23.0 query_datetime: 2005-10-08T13:34:36+13:00 domain_name: xtra.co.nz query_status: 440 Request Denied % %

Regards Dan

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This is normal behaviour. When the .nz servers are under load, requests not coming from registrars are dropped. Either run the whois from a registrar website (or dnc.org.nz) or wait an hour or 2 and try again, and it should work fine. :)

I'm getting the same 440 error doing lookups through the Domainz website.... surely they count as a registrar ? Very annoying... Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog