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Subject: Re: more dns weirdness
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On 09/12/2010 22:01, Andy Tornquist wrote:
> Have you tried a different server to query?
>
>

the wider issue is that freebsd whois will use tld.whois-servers.net 
cnames to resolve appropriate whois servers and that whois-servers.net 
has nameservers from one sole provider (ultradns),  which is still 
having problems.

I'm not overally bothered about amazons' whois, but i am concerned about 
freebsd's whois being tied to one NS provider (ultradns) which affects dig's

Paul.