[arin-tech-discuss] whois.arin.net down?

[Brian Rak]

I can no longer connect to whois.arin.net (I end up with connection 
reset errors):

$ wget whois.arin.net
--2018-09-12 11:04:14--  http://whois.arin.net/
Resolving whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)... 2001:500:a9::46, 
2001:500:31::46, 2001:500:13::46, ...
Connecting to whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)|2001:500:a9::46|:80... 
failed: Connection refused.
Connecting to whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)|2001:500:31::46|:80... 
failed: Connection refused.
Connecting to whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)|2001:500:13::46|:80... 
failed: Connection refused.
Connecting to whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)|199.71.0.46|:80... failed: 
Connection refused.
Connecting to whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)|199.212.0.46|:80... 
failed: Connection refused.
Connecting to whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)|199.5.26.46|:80... failed: 
Connection refused.

$ wget https://whois.arin.net
--2018-09-12 11:04:38--  https://whois.arin.net/
Resolving whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)... 2001:500:13::46, 
2001:500:a9::46, 2001:500:31::46, ...
Connecting to whois.arin.net (whois.arin.net)|2001:500:13::46|:443... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by 
peer) in headers.
Retrying.

--2018-09-12 11:04:39--  (try: 2)  https://whois.arin.net/