* Robert L Mathews (lists@tigertech.com) wrote:
These work for me on multiple IPv6 carriers, using both the Mac OS X and Debian squeeze whois clients:
Interesting..
Perhaps your WHOIS client is choking on the first type of response without the "="? WHOIS should work fine via telnet to eliminate possible WHOIS client issues; you can just:
It's Ubuntu 13.04's 5.0.20ubuntu1 client, so it really shouldn't be much different from the Debian whois you're using. Also, whois -h 199.7.50.74 networksolutions.com works just fine (and includes the blurb).
$ telnet 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 43
... and type "=networksolutions.com" to get the raw response.
Doing this results in it just hanging, similar to with the whois client: sfrost@tamriel:/home/sfrost> telnet 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 43 Trying 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74... Connected to 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74. Escape character is '^]'. =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. [... hanging here, still ...]
Anyone from NetSol care?
Network Solutions hasn't been involved with the running of whois.internic.net and whois.crsnic.net for many years. They're currently run by VeriSign Global Registry Services.
Ah, yea, good point. :)
there's a Debian bug #683187 which mentions similar issues from nearly a year ago..).
Right, but other people couldn't duplicate it. I suspect VeriSign uses rate-limiting; is it possible that your source IP address is just being rate-limited?
It usually tells you that, actually, and so I doubt that's the case. Also, attempting from other IPv6 addresses results in the same hang (even with the telnet approach). Thanks! Stephen