Re: InterNIC mail problems?

[Deepak Jain <deepak () jain com>]

Speaking of screwed whois, have you noticed an increasing number of 
connection refused errors when trying to look at whois information? No 
more of those "Too busy" messages, just a refusal. Even their CGI/WWW 
based whois tool comes back blank half the time.

-Deepak.

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Eric Kozowski wrote:

> Is anyone else having problems sending mail to the InterNIC?  I have stuff in
> the queue for them for 19 hours now. The queue shows the following error:
>
> (Deferred: Connection reset by peer with rs.internic.net.)
>
> Also a telnet to port 25 on rs.internic.net produces the following:
>
> % telnet rs.internic.net 25
> Trying 198.41.0.5 ...
> Connected to rs.internic.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> This makes it hard to get them to correct screwed up whois entries :-O
>
> -- 
> Eric Kozowski                    Senior Network Engineer
> eric () structured net              Structured Network Systems, Inc.
> (503)656-3235 FAX                Better, Cheaper, Faster -- pick any two. 
> (800)881-0962 Voice              http://www.structured.net/
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