rwhois.he.net:4321 is down; could this be the cause for wrong geoip?

[idealneck]

The geoip for my address range is out of date in most geoip database for a week now and I'm wondering if the cause is that the whois server isn't responding. It is actually correct at https://tunnelbroker.net/export/google

I am not exactly sure how geofeeds work but my understanding is that the whois server would reference the geofeed URL in the whois and geoip providers end up ingesting that. I am thinking that the whois being down means they are no longer checking that geofeed.

rwhois.he.net:4321 is specifically down, the web interface is https://rwhois.he.net up but the whois server itself gets a connection refused response.