whois and ripe and refer

I have setup the unix whois on port 43 (the one that comes with Fred). Then we have changed the attribute "refer:" of the Domain object at RIPE to "CLIENTADDRESS whois.nic.fo 43". The reason for this change is to have RIPE redirecting all whois queries to our whois server (whois.nic.fo). I know other countries have done this with succes. But i cant get this to work. If i for example enter the domain name "kjatt.fo" in the form at www.ripe.net/whois, i do not get any information about this domain name, only the error below. It seems like the whois service, that comes with fred, does not accept the RIPE request. Is anyone able to help me with this ? Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ % This is the RIPE Database query service. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf % The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database. % It has been obtained by querying a remote server: % (whois.nic.fo) at port 43. % To see the object stored in the RIPE database % use the -R flag in your query % %REFERRAL START % Domain Information over Whois protocol % % Whoisd Server Version: 2.2.0 % Usage: whois [options] [[type] value] % % Options: % -r Switch off recursion. Only the object which is primary target % of query is returned. % -T type Type of object to lookup (domain, nsset, contact, registrar). % There may be more types separated by comma without spaces % between them. The types are case-insensitive. % -i attr Lookup object by its attribute. Attribute can be any of % attributes from object templates marked by flag "inverse key". % Attribute name is case-insensitive. % -q version Returns version of whois server. % -q indexes Returns list of attributes which can be used in search. The % attributes have form object:attribute. % -q templates Returns templates for all four object types. % % There's yet another way how to specify a type of object to lookup. Just % prefix the object's identifier with the name of a type. The following two % examples are equivalent: % % $ whois -T domain nic.cz % % $ whois "domain nic.cz" % % The -q parameter can be used only once and not in combination with any % other option. The -i parameter can be used only once. % % More information about this implementation of whois server can be found at % http://www.nic.cz/whois/manual %ERROR:107: usage error % % Unknown option, invalid combination of options, invalid value for option % or invalid count of parameters was specified. %%REFERRAL END