Easy explanation: FC broke their XML server and didn't fix it yet.

WTB them getting it fixed.  its actually getting kind of old.. people are already complaining of there levels not updating on the bots and a few other things related to FC xml being down.

all I know is that its been like this for a week or 2.. so who knows.. maybe they changed something and broke it and dont even know that they broke it.. Has anyone attempted to get ahold of them to ask them about it?

I sent them an email... i think their email server is on the same machine as the XML server 

yesterday i got an email from [email protected]
telling me my account was now inactive cuz of card details. as the botton it also said

Should you require further assistance please contact [email protected]

this is for Anarchy Online Account

i havnt had this problem, my roster update just fails

Things are updating again. In the future if this happens again it would be possible to set your chached whois records to not expire by using some SQL:

UPDATE whois SET updated = UNIX_TIMESTAMP()+(86400*XXX);

This will set the updated field on the record to a timestamp that is XXX days in the future. I tried this on my bots and this fixed the lookup issues...because the records weren't expired my bots stopped trying to get XML data from people.anarchy-online.com.

Today I simply changed the sign on the SQL so that the records expired XXX days in the past:
UPDATE whois SET updated = UNIX_TIMESTAMP()-(86400*XXX);

I then ran my whois-update.php script as normal. Things are getting updated and should be getting back to normal soon.

i already added code for lookup order in whois file so u can simply turn off the lookup of funcom