Bingo.... it works again :) I saw a delegation creation email arive in my mailbox... :) jeroen@purgatory:~$ ping whois.6bone.net PING whois.6bone.net (192.103.19.12): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.103.19.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=238 time=187.417 ms 64 bytes from 192.103.19.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=189.585 ms Good.... back to business... Greets, Jeroen