Dear colleagues, After experiencing performance slow-down on our whois service, we decided to upgrade the hardware of our primary whois server. The upgrade will take place on 9 March, 2001, Friday. It will start at 8:00am CET and planned to last approximately 2 hours. During the operation, whois queries will be directed to our secondary server and the incoming update messages will be queued, to be processed later. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Regards, Engin Gunduz ____________________________ RIPE Database Administration.