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whois.internic.net / whois.crsnic.net IPv6 timeouts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Frost)
Wed Jul 10 14:45:43 2013
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:45:46 -0400
From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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All,
Don't know if it'll help or if this is simply old news to most, but
the whois systems (whois.internic.net/whois.crsnic.net) have AAAA
records and happily answer TCP/43 requests w/ the usual blurb, but all
the servers I've hit then fail to actually provide data and instead
the whois client (Ubuntu 13.04) simply time-outs.
sfrost@tamriel:/home/sfrost> whois -h 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 networksolutions.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Timeout.
Servers that I've tried so far (all IPv6 addresses I got through
running 'host whois.crsnic.net'):
2001:503:5419:1060::74
2001:503:3227:1060::74
2001:503:6810:1060::74
2001:503:bfb0:1060::74
2001:500:30ff:1060::74
2001:503:7bbf:1060::74
2001:502:be98:1060::74
2001:502:8c25:1060::74
Anyone from NetSol care? It's not the end of the world, but it
certainly is quite annoying.. Judging by some complaints on the 'net,
looks to be a rather long-standing issue too (there's a Debian bug
#683187 which mentions similar issues from nearly a year ago..).
Thanks,
Stephen
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