[Apologies for duplicate messages] Dear Colleagues, Tomorrow, 13 November 2002 Wednesday, we plan maintenance work for the whois server. As part of the maintenance work the server software will be upgraded to improve server query performance. We plan to start around 06:30 UTC and finish the work till 10:30 UTC. During this maintenance period, - mail updates will be queued and automatically processed after the maintenance work. - webupdates and syncupdates will not be possible. - queries will be answered by our secondary server. We apologise for any inconvenience. Please contact <ripe-dbm@ripe.net> for any questions/ comments. Best Regards, Engin Gunduz RIPE NCC Database Group