<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 style="color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><small style="display: block; color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-weight: normal;" class="">AFRINIC Status</small><br class="">[Resolved] intermittent WHOIS DB timeouts</h1><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Sorry, but we experienced some unusual system load on a WHOIS database node, which may have caused some queries to not respond. <br class="">This is now fully resolved but the root cause is not know, and will be investigated during the coming few days.</p><p class="m_889708786393712131mc-template-text-muted" align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted 2 October 2017 @ 1:48AM UTC</p><hr class="m_889708786393712131mc-template-hr" style="border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a class="m_889708786393712131mc-template-link" href="http://afrinic.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21c6aea56e4a01ac62c2825dc&id=cbd478d0c2&e=9bad309c82" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://afrinic.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21c6aea56e4a01ac62c2825dc%26id%3Dcbd478d0c2%26e%3D9bad309c82&source=gmail&ust=1506995315863000&usg=AFQjCNFDSkuAniX-FPpGLkPxj4la5SI-gw" style="color: rgb(41, 128, 185);">View our status page →</a></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>