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)