[164391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois.internic.net / whois.crsnic.net IPv6 timeouts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Jul 10 15:55:35 2013
Date: 10 Jul 2013 19:52:59 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20130710184546.GV3286@tamriel.snowman.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
"It works fine for me."
I've had problems before and would guess that it's a routing issue.
It my impression that they're anycasted.
> Anyone from NetSol care?
Since they haven't had anything to do with internic.net or crsnic.net
for over a decade, probably not.
R's,
John
