[anti-abuse-wg] whois servers spinning today

Fri Oct 19 13:27:45 CEST 2012

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-
> bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of U.Mutlu
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 2:16 PM
> To: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net

> The whois servers whois.ripe.net and whois.arin.net seem to have
> problems today
> as they either don't respond, or when they respond then with empty
> results:

> # whois -h whois.ripe.net google.de

> %ERROR:101: no entries found

.de domains are handled by DENIC: whois -h whois.denic.de google.de

> # whois -h whois.arin.net sprint.net

> No match found for sprint.net.

InterNIC says that the registrar for sprint.net is CSC Corporate Domains, 
Inc. Ergo: whois -h whois.corporatedomains.com sprint.net

-- 
Thor Kottelin
http://www.anta.net/