NetSol whois/root-servers fubar again?

Ok, are the "Not-work Solutions" (sic) whois and/or root servers
fubar'd again? This came up as a result of a couple of my mail servers
denying a relay that passed through our upstream's relays without
issue... (a funny sidebar to it, of course, is that the messages were
spam though apparently should not have failed sendmail's domain check)

(This from activities happening earlier today (10/04/1999) and yesterday)

Regards,
Russell

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% whois antigua.com
  [...]
COL.COM CORPORATION (ANTIGUA6-DOM)
   P.O. BOX F-40132
   Suite C, Regent Centre East
   Freeport, Grand Bahama
   Bahamas

   Domain Name: ANTIGUA.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Black, John (JB8429) black@AXIONET.COM
      604-737-1722
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      DNS Administration (DA256-ORG) support@WEBDIRECT.COM
      +1 (604) 222.4646
   Billing Contact:
      Black, John (JB8429) black@AXIONET.COM
      604-737-1722

   Record last updated on 14-Sep-99.
   Record created on 31-Dec-97.
   Database last updated on 4-Oct-99 09:09:01 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.WEBDIRECT.NET 209.17.169.2
   NS2.WEBDIRECT.NET 209.17.169.8

% /usr/sbin/nslookup
Default Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1

set type=SOA
antigua.com.

Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1

antigua.com
        origin = cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net
        mail addr = hostmaster.mail.att.net
        serial = 2
        refresh = 83000 (23h3m20s)
        retry = 10000 (2h46m40s)
        expire = 600000 (6d22h40m)
        minimum ttl = 83000 (23h3m20s)
antigua.com nameserver = cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net
antigua.com nameserver = dbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net
cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 199.191.128.105
dbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 199.191.128.106

server a.root-servers.net

Default Server: a.root-servers.net
Address: 198.41.0.4

set type=NS
antigua.com.

Server: a.root-servers.net
Address: 198.41.0.4

Non-authoritative answer:
antigua.com nameserver = CBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET
antigua.com nameserver = DBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET

Authoritative answers can be found from:
CBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET internet address = 199.191.128.105
DBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET internet address = 199.191.128.106

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