[arin-discuss] Flaky whois

[Randy Carpenter]

What I'm seeing is that most of the time I try a query (which is usually once or twice a day), it hangs for long enough for me to give up via the web site, and try via command line, which also hangs while waiting for a response from whois.arin.net.

I tried it just now, and the query got me to the redirect to whois.arin.net, and it hung there for about 2 minutes before finally loading. Command-line appeared to work well enough.


-Randy

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----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Randy Carpenter
> <rcarpen at network1.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea when the ARIN whois is going to be
> > stable? It is been hit or miss for about a week. It generally just
> > hangs via web, and times out via commandline whois.
> >
> 
> at the last nanog (or a previous one?) Mark Kosters had a preso about
> some sudden ramp up of whois traffic (a lightning talk perhaps I'm
> remembering?). At that time I believe he said they were seeing
> intermediate issues but had things in hand (aside from the wonder of
> where the traffic came from, something related he thought to oauth
> login validations?).
> 
> Perhaps the ramp up continued up? Mark?
> 
>