Thanks Charles, at last my customers *won't* complain anymore that their
domain doesn't show up in 'whois'. ;)
Taco
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Taco Scargo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: RE: NetSol Whois follies
> Ok, just got this resolved.
>
> Turns out there was some problems late last week, and our on-call
technician
> explicitly blocked the IPs used by NSI. Since these IPs don't have
reverse
> lookups, the on-call tech did not know they were NSI's (and I didn't have
> firewall access to determine this...). Anyway, the block has been removed
> and things should be fine :)
>
> So, *used* to block, blocked again, no longer blocking.
>
> Charles Daminato
> OpenSRS Product Manager
> Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Taco Scargo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: August 7, 2001 10:48 AM
> > To: Charles Daminato
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: NetSol Whois follies
> >
> >
> > So why do I get "Registrar request timed out. Could not connect."
> > 10 out of
> > 10 times when querying www.networksolutions.com for a Tucows registered
> > domain.?
> >
> > Maybe you mean "*still* blocking" instead of "*used* to block" ?
> >
> > Taco
> >
> >
> > -
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Taco Scargo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: NetSol Whois follies
> >
> >
> > > Taco,
> > >
> > > We *used* to block NSI whois explicitly, but in the past couple
> > of months
> > > we have allowed it back in - unless they're exceeding some limits,
which
> > > we've set quite high for them (since they are the largest producer of
> > > whois traffic on our systems) :)
> > >
> > > Charles Daminato
> > > TUCOWS Product Manager
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Taco Scargo wrote:
> > >
> > > > It is definately Tucows. They are blocking whois requests from
Network
> > > > Solutions. I don't like that, but Tucows told me I have to
> > live with it.
> > > >
> > > > Taco Scargo
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:31
> > > > Subject: Re: NetSol Whois follies
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > The whois lookup at Network Solutions' website seems to
> > do recursion
> > for
> > > > > > other registrars OK.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > No, it doesn't. ;-) They display awful behavior at
> > > > > whois.networksolutions.com for some days now. They even think that
a
> > > > > domain I registered two days ago for a client with INWW is still
> > available
> > > > > and they haven't put up the domain on the root-servers
> > either - but it
> > > > > shows up at nsiregistry.net.
> > > > > If I query others of our domains at
> > whois.networksolutions.com it just
> > > > > times out after a while with a "complete". So, it's definitely not
> > Tucows,
> > > > > it's the whois there. This already happened several times during
the
> > past
> > > > > months.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Kai
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > > Kai Sch�tzl, Berlin, Germany
> > > > > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:
> http://www.conactive.com
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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