I dunno, Taco, but I can tell you I *just* did a query
at www.networksolutions.com for atlcon.net, which is
definitely registered with Tucows, and got a response back
within a second or so.
Regards,
Eric Longman
Atl-Connect Internet Services
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Taco Scargo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:47 AM
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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> > > > ClubWin - Help for Windows Users: http://www.clubwin.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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