Colleagues, As you may have seen on the list, there were a few reachability problems with the new IPv6 Whois service. We believe these are configuration related, and have a workaround allowing queries to WHOIS.RIPE.NET to work while we research it further. If you have network issues with this service please e-mail <ripe-dbm@ripe.net>. We also have heard some problems people are having with their Whois clients giving them errors querying the RIPE Whois server. These can occur in the case that: - The Whois client has IPv6 support. - The host computer does not have working IPv6 support. The client will: 1. Get the AAAA record for WHOIS.RIPE.NET. 2. Try to connect to the IPv6 address. 3. Fail because there is no IPv6 stack/address/router/etc. If you are experiencing this problem, you may be able to fix it by enabling IPv6 on your host (so that the IPv6 queries work), disabling IPv6 *completely* on your host (so that no AAAA records are returned), or by using another Whois client. The RIPE Whois client will work in this case, and is available from our FTP site: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/ripe-whois-latest.tar.gz -- Shane Kerr RIPE NCC
We also have heard some problems people are having with their Whois clients giving them errors querying the RIPE Whois server. These can occur in the case that: The client distributed by Debian GNU/Linux and some other distributions (at least Mandrake Linux IIRC) will fail because it sends its version number with -V flag, like the old RIPE client did. I suppose now it's too late to change server behaviour, so I'm finishing to remove this feature from the program and will upload it to the usual
On Jan 23, Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net> wrote: places in a few minutes. -- ciao, Marco
Dear Marco, This is a feature we supported, and we'll keep supporting it. It's a mistake on our side that we'll change promptly, so please don't change the behaviour. We'll make the proxy accept -V switches of these types. Apologies for the inconvience caused by this. Best Regards, On Thursday 23 January 2003 18:43, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jan 23, Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net> wrote:
We also have heard some problems people are having with their Whois clients giving them errors querying the RIPE Whois server. These can occur in the case that:
The client distributed by Debian GNU/Linux and some other distributions (at least Mandrake Linux IIRC) will fail because it sends its version number with -V flag, like the old RIPE client did. I suppose now it's too late to change server behaviour, so I'm finishing to remove this feature from the program and will upload it to the usual places in a few minutes.
-- Can Bican DB Group RIPE NCC
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