Problems getting to Verisign's whois server on IPv6

Tue May 1 12:33:07 UTC 2012

Seems to work for me....

mps31 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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
>
>
>