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Something fishy at NetSol again...

  • From: Rodney Joffe
  • Date: Wed Dec 30 00:59:57 1998 
I hate co-incidences.

At the same time as this story appeared today
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,30366,00.html?st.ne.140.head
whois queries started returning:

*
* WELCOME to InterNIC Registration Services 
*
* Sorry, the system load is temporarily too heavy.
*
* Please wait a while and try again.  Thanks
*

It's currently 12:34am EST. and the response is still mostly the same.

A query still needs 5-10 attempts before a server responds.

Dig used to (a couple of weeks ago) show a bunch of servers. Now there
is only 1: 198.41.0.6

Is anyone else having this problem?

Does anyone else have a solution?

We're trying to track down the source of a dos attack, and this kind of
screwing around to find contact data isn't helpful...