North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Something fishy at NetSol again...
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:38:59PM -0700, Rodney Joffe wrote: > I hate co-incidences. I don't think it's coincidental. Well, maybe it was... Using the default server that ships with Red Hat Linux's whois, I got that message too. Using rs8.internic.net, one of the other names in the "hunt group", worked, though. > 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... The computers are rs[0-8].internic.net. whois.internic.net is supposed to work too, but I always forget to use it :) and it's not the compiled-in default in my particular copy of whois. Recompile whois and set the default host to whois.internic.net and you may have better luck. -- Steve Sobol [[email protected]] Part-time Support Droid [[email protected]] NACS Spaminator [[email protected]] Proud resident of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the coolest place on earth. http://www.ClevelandHeights.com
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