Seems to work for me.... mps31@lonsgnsu1:~$ telnet -6 2001:503:3227:1060::74 whois Trying 2001:503:3227:1060::74... Connected to 2001:503:3227:1060::74. Escape character is '^]'. mps31@lonsgnsu1:~$ whois -h 2001:503:3227:1060::74 =verisign.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. Domain Name: VERISIGN.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/ Name Server: A2.NSTLD.COM Name Server: C2.NSTLD.NET Name Server: D2.NSTLD.NET Name Server: E2.NSTLD.NET Name Server: F2.NSTLD.COM Name Server: G2.NSTLD.COM Name Server: H2.NSTLD.NET Name Server: J2.NSTLD.NET Name Server: K2.NSTLD.NET Name Server: L2.NSTLD.COM Name Server: M2.NSTLD.NET Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: serverDeleteProhibited Status: serverTransferProhibited Status: serverUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 14-apr-2011 Creation Date: 02-jun-1995 Expiration Date: 01-jun-2012
Last update of whois database: Tue, 01 May 2012 12:29:12 UTC <<<
Mike Simkins ▪ Senior Network Engineer , Operations Engineering ▪ SunGard Availability Services ▪ 25 Canada Square, London E14 5LQ -----Original Message----- From: TR Shaw [mailto:tshaw@oitc.com] Sent: 01 May 2012 13:23 To: Tony Tauber Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Problems getting to Verisign's whois server on IPv6 Nope sure can't $ telnet -6 2001:503:3227:1060::74 whois 2001:503:3227:1060::74: nodename nor servname provided, or not known Tom On May 1, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Tony Tauber wrote:
Path is not the same, but the last few replies similarly suggest packet-filters (!X in my case vs. !P). I can get to the whois port (TCP/43):
$ telnet -6 2001:503:3227:1060::74 whois Trying 2001:503:3227:1060::74... Connected to 2001:503:3227:1060::74. Escape character is '^]'.
Can you?
Tony
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:01 AM, TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com> wrote: Anyone else having problems getting to Verisign's whois server on IPv6?
$ host com.whois-servers.net com.whois-servers.net is an alias for whois.verisign-grs.com. whois.verisign-grs.com has address 199.7.59.74 whois.verisign-grs.com has IPv6 address 2001:503:3227:1060::74
$ traceroute6 2001:503:3227:1060::74 traceroute6 to 2001:503:3227:1060::74 (2001:503:3227:1060::74) from 2001:470:5:4ed:cabc:c8ff:fea1:560c, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets 1 2001:470:5:4ed:226:bbff:fe6d:426e 0.311 ms 0.374 ms 0.260 ms 2 ipv6oitc-1.tunnel.tserv12.mia1.ipv6.he.net 21.128 ms 21.052 ms 17.389 ms 3 gige-g2-3.core1.mia1.he.net 20.055 ms 16.198 ms 22.699 ms 4 10gigabitethernet4-3.core1.atl1.he.net 40.166 ms 33.887 ms 32.547 ms 5 10gigabitethernet6-4.core1.ash1.he.net 49.821 ms 45.999 ms 52.751 ms 6 2001:504:0:2::2641:1 47.197 ms 46.748 ms 47.289 ms 7 xe-1-2-0.r1.bb-fo.chi2.vrsn.net 65.094 ms xe-0-2-0.r2.bb-fo.chi2.vrsn.net 66.441 ms xe-1-2-0.r1.bb-fo.chi2.vrsn.net 66.320 ms 8 2001:503:3227:14ff::2 66.448 ms 2001:503:3227:13ff::2 101.761 ms 86.864 ms 9 2001:503:3227:13ff::2 69.818 ms !P 2001:503:3227:14ff::2 69.311 ms !P 2001:503:3227:13ff::2 68.662 ms !P