WHOIS Backup Not Working

[mthbrown]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to configure and test domain_stats. For a lot of queries, it works fine but when it run into a domain with no RDAP data, it fails:

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:5730/data.gov.uk | jq
{
  "alerts": [
    "SUSPECT-FREQ-SCORE",
    "RDAP lookup to https://www.rdap.net/domain/data.gov.uk returned 404"
  ],
  "category": "ERROR",
  "freq_score": [
    2.9338,
    4.0568
  ],
  "seen_by_isc": "ERROR",
  "seen_by_web": "ERROR",
  "seen_by_you": "ERROR"
}

I tried the suggested command to enable whois fallback: domain-stats-utils -f /path_to_data but this doesn't change the results (even when I try it for other domains that I know don't have RDAP so caching isn't the issue). I tried running the above command both while domain_stats.py was running and when it was offline and both resulting in no change of behavior. Any ideas? Thanks