Re: whois.internic.net / whois.crsnic.net IPv6 timeouts

[Stephen Frost <sfrost () snowman net>]

* 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

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