Problems with WWW Whois ...

Adam,

On 2001-07-03 13:18:20 +0200, Low, Adam wrote:
> 
> Is anybody working on the WWW whois on www.ripe.net ?
> 
> I'm having inconsistent problems with numerous browsers, sometimes the
> query is successful but just as often I get an error message
> complaining about the URL and specifically the arguments passed to the
> script. It looks to me that someone's changed the code behind the
> submit button to add some trailing junk (submit=Submit) that the
> script cant pass.

As you guessed, we were doing some maintenance on the www.ripe.net site,
and there was a period of approximately 45 minutes where occasional
queries would give this result.

We apologize for the outage.  Everything is working normally now, and we
anticipate no further changes.

-- 
Shane Kerr
Database Software Engineer
RIPE NCC