whois.ripe.net seems dead over v6, working over v4.

Hi,

I am not sure whether you did something, or someone in the middle did :-) but it's working now.

Thanks in any case for investigating.

Best wishes
Andy

On 5 Apr 2012, at 10:55, Kaveh Ranjbar wrote:

> Hi Andy,
> 
> The whois is itself is up and running on v6 and is responding. 
> The traceroute you have sent clearly shows there is a connectivity issue, however checking query logs we can see we are receiving the usual amount of queries over IPv6. I will forward this to our IT Department so they can investigate it further.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Kaveh.
> 
> ---
> Kaveh Ranjbar,
> RIPE NCC Database Group Manager
> 
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Andy Davidson wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> I am having timeout problems reaching whois.ripe.net over v6 this morning.  In other words, it seems dead over v6.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> andy at chilli:~$ whois -h 193.0.6.135 ajbd-ripe
>> % 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
>> 
>> % Note: this output has been filtered.
>> %       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.
>> 
>> % Information related to 'AJBD-RIPE'
>> 
>> person:          Andy Davidson
>> address:         Sheffield
>> phone:           +44-1143190605
>> nic-hdl:         AJBD-RIPE
>> remarks:         Up the Mariners!
>> mnt-by:          MNT-AJBD
>> source:          RIPE # Filtered
>> 
>> % This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service (proxy) version 1.4.6 (WHOIS3)
>> 
>> andy at chilli:~$ whois -h 2001:67c:2e8:22::c100:687 !$
>> whois -h 2001:67c:2e8:22::c100:687 ajbd-ripe
>> Timeout.
>> 
>> andy at chilli:~$ traceroute6 2001:67c:2e8:22::c100:687
>> traceroute to 2001:67c:2e8:22::c100:687 (2001:67c:2e8:22::c100:687) from 2001:67c:188:2::10, 30 hops max, 16 byte packets
>> 1  2001:67c:188:2::1 (2001:67c:188:2::1)  1.613 ms  1.728 ms  2.18 ms
>> 2  ge-1-0-8-314.rt0.the.uk.goscomb.net (2a01:348:0:4:0:24:0:1)  0.226 ms  0.197 ms  0.186 ms
>> 3  ae0-700.rt0.sov.uk.goscomb.net (2a01:348::32:0:1)  0.382 ms  0.359 ms  0.336 ms
>> 4  2a01:348::51:0:1 (2a01:348::51:0:1)  0.38 ms  0.386 ms  0.329 ms
>> 5  linx-2601.ge-0-1-0.jun1.thn.network.bit.nl (2001:7f8:4::323b:1)  0.729 ms  0.611 ms  0.586 ms
>> 6  806.xe-0-0-0.jun1.bit-2a.network.bit.nl (2001:7b8:0:326::1)  15.06 ms  14.884 ms  15.058 ms
>> 7  gw.ipv6.amsix.telrtr.ripe.net (2001:7f8:1::a500:3333:2)  18.948 ms  18.986 ms  18.904 ms
>> 8  * * *
>> ^C
>