On 7/10/13 11:45 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
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.
sfrost@tamriel:/home/sfrost> whois -h 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 networksolutions.com
These work for me on multiple IPv6 carriers, using both the Mac OS X and Debian squeeze whois clients: ---- $ whois -h 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 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. NETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM.RESPECTED.BY.WWW.DNDIALOG.COM NETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record. ---- $ whois -h 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 =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. Server Name: NETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM.RESPECTED.BY.WWW.DNDIALOG.COM IP Address: 81.177.3.240 Registrar: MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES LLC Whois Server: whois.moniker.com Referral URL: http://www.moniker.com Domain Name: NETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/ Name Server: NS1.NETSOL.COM Name Server: NS2.NETSOL.COM Name Server: NS3.NETSOL.COM [etc.] ---- 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: $ telnet 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 43 ... and type "=networksolutions.com" to get the raw response.
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.
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? -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/