What happened to RIPE Database full text search?

Dear all,
Nothing happens to the RIPE DB itself.

However, the full search text is not working at this moment.
We are investigating and working on fixing it.

You can still look at the RIPE DB with the normal whois query interfaces 
(including the one on the web http://www.ripe.net/db/whois.html)

The indexes for the full text search were not created this last night and will 
be recreated as soon as possible. However, the creation of full text indexes 
takes a while and the service will be unavailable for a few hours.

The DB itself is OK and can be accessed in any of the other usual ways.

Sorry for any incovenience

Joao Damas
RIPE DB Group
RIPE NCC

 ludger.bornhorst at t-online.de (Ludger Bornhorst) writes:
 * Dear all,
 * 
 * since a short time I get the following answer on any query in
 * http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/ripedbsearch:
 * 
 *   >The following problem occured during the search: 
 *   >
 *   >          No objects were found matching the search criteria 
 *   >
 *   >     Please try again! 
 * 
 * Maybe this error arose since the new RIPE-db version 2.1.3
 * has been implemented last Monday?
 * 
 * -- 
 * Ludger Bornhorst, Deutsche Telekom AG, ZDK
 * Zentrum fuer Datenkommunikation, Oldenburg, Germany
 * Tel.: +49 441/234-5678   Fax : +49 441/27463
 *