Dear Colleagues, Due to a regretable oversight, the following message was not sent to this list last night. Due to a crash of our whois server, we had to stop the updates and re-index the data. There is no need to resend your updates. The updates are queued and they will be processed later. We are also going to upgrade the main server so that it can cope better with the ever growing load. The whois query service has been switched to our backup server, therefore the response time is slower than usual. The latest news is that the re-indexing process has finished and we are currently working on the main server itself. We anticipate that the full service will be restored sometime later today. We shall keep you informed. If you have anymore questions, please contact <ripe-dbm@ripe.net>. Regards, A. M. R. Magee ______________ RIPE NCC