whois.6bone.net outage?

[Jeroen Massar]

David, Bob,

Is the whois.6bone.net box down?

jeroen@purgatory:~$ traceroute -v whois.6bone.net
traceroute to whois.6bone.net (192.103.19.12), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  gw-64-92.sms-1.ams-tel.cistron.net (195.64.92.1) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  20.639 ms  22.794 ms  20.606 ms
 2  fa-0-0-1.rtr-1.ams-tel.cistron.net (62.216.31.1) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  22.591 ms  22.792 ms  21.888 ms
 3  pos-1-1-0.rtr-1.ams-sar.cistron.net (195.64.64.53) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  21.926 ms  22.078 ms  21.081 ms
 4  amsterdam11.nl.eqip.net (195.206.67.93) 36 bytes to 195.64.92.136
25.846 ms  23.220 ms  21.835 ms
 5  amsterdam51.nl.eqip.net (195.90.65.125) 36 bytes to 195.64.92.136
24.101 ms  21.062 ms  21.538 ms
 6  newyork51.us.eqip.net (195.206.65.58) 36 bytes to 195.64.92.136
113.222 ms  122.946 ms  111.780 ms
 7  500.POS2-0.GW3.NYC4.ALTER.NET (157.130.22.149) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  117.064 ms  114.368 ms  113.437 ms
 8  149.at-5-1-0.XR3.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.24.142) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  113.810 ms  113.168 ms  112.970 ms
 9  0.so-2-0-0.XL1.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.17.29) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  100.850 ms  101.415 ms  100.669 ms
10  0.so-1-0-0.TL1.NYC9.ALTER.NET (152.63.23.113) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  113.839 ms  115.430 ms  115.572 ms
11  0.so-1-1-0.TL1.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.10.78) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  165.259 ms  163.985 ms  163.926 ms
12  0.so-7-0-0.XL1.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.133) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  167.203 ms  167.796 ms  167.998 ms
13  POS1-0.XR1.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.74) 36 bytes to 195.64.92.136
179.395 ms  179.685 ms  185.108 ms
14  189.ATM7-0.GW8.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.52.65) 36 bytes to
195.64.92.136  180.564 ms  203.031 ms  191.929 ms
15  Nokia-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.200.242) 48 bytes to
195.64.92.136  189.251 ms  181.486 ms  182.755 ms
16
36 bytes from 195.64.64.53 to 195.64.92.136: icmp type 3 (Dest
Unreachable) code 1
 4: x00430045
 8: x000021ef
12: x92a4113d
16: x885c40c3
20: x0d0420c6
24: x35002811
28: x6cd22f00
32: x00000000
 Nokia-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.200.242) 48 bytes to 195.64.92.136
181.655 ms !N  182.497 ms !N  180.552 ms !N

Also it doesn't have any IPv6 address, would be nice to have a 6bone box
be accessible by IPv6 ;)

jeroen@purgatory:~$ traceroute6 www.6bone.net
traceroute6 to 6bone.net (3ffe:b00:c18:1::10) from 3ffe:8114:1000::27,
30 hops max, 12 byte packets
 1  tunnel-026.ipng.nl  22.377 ms  23.639 ms  22.869 ms
 2  intouch.ipv6.viagenie.qc.ca  26.288 ms  27.004 ms  24.433 ms
 3  rap.ipv6.viagenie.qc.ca  185.046 ms  183.016 ms  185.224 ms
 4  www.6bone.net  184.685 ms  192.68 ms  189.426 ms

Maybe we could setup somekind of mirroring service so that the whois
database is kept on multiple (1+) hosts so this event doesn't happen, I
think many IPv6 enabled sites rely on information from the whois
database.
IPng.nl for example registers all their users in it (mirrored locally
ofcourse) but when a user signs up, he/she/* has
to create an entry in the 6bone database first...

Hope the box gets it's feet on the ground soon again.

Greets,
 Jeroen