[111688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is whois.apnic.net down? (IPv6-MW)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jay@miscreant.org)
Tue Feb 10 15:43:12 2009
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:43:00 +1100
From: jay@miscreant.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <f1dedf9c0902100912r62dbba8eub1a8e0d9e8cd8a9b@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Dale Carstensen <dlc@lampinc.com> wrote:
>
>> >I get "Connection timed out" on whois commands to it.
>>
>> Sorry to attempt to answer my own question, but maybe it's the fires
>> in Australia, as the last traceroute hop is a Brisbane.telstra.net
>>
>
> Brisbane (where APNIC is) is close to 1000 miles from Melbourne (where the
> fires are).
> Ironically the state Brisbane is in is currently experiencing very bad
> flooding over most of the state...
>
> But I digress. www.apnic.net is also down over IPv4, but reachable over
> IPv6. whois.apnic.net doesn't seem to have an IPv6 address.
>
> Scott.
>
9 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 203.119.76.66
10 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms whois.apnic.net [202.12.29.13]
Trace complete.
It's reachable from where I'm sitting (NSW)
