[6bone] whois.6bone.net has only v4 connectivity?

Gert Doering gert@space.net
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:07:12 +0200


Hi,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:04:14PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Gert Doering
> > is ist just me...?
> > 
> > $ dig whois.6bone.net any
> > ...
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > whois.6bone.net.        1H IN A         192.103.19.12
> > 
> > is it a bug, or a mis-feature, that whois.6bone.net does not have IPv6
> > connectivity?
> 
> That has $always been the case.

Hmmm.  How to fix it?  whois.6bone.net is located at Nokia, they have
IPv6, should be doable...

> A couple of weeks ago www.6bone.net only did v4 too :(

But now they have nice and shiny IPv6 :-)

> On another note... since when is there the possibility for delegating
> 2002::/16 reverses ?
> 
> 3.0.0.d.d.e.3.c.2.0.0.2.ip6.int.  23h56m28s IN NS  nya.vihti.fi.
> 3.0.0.d.d.e.3.c.2.0.0.2.ip6.int.  23h56m28s IN NS  nl.vihti.fi.
> 6.0.0.d.d.e.3.c.2.0.0.2.ip6.int.  23h56m28s IN NS  nl.vihti.fi.
> 6.0.0.d.d.e.3.c.2.0.0.2.ip6.int.  23h56m28s IN NS  nya.vihti.fi.

I'm not sure.   In the last RIPE meetings, there was the wish to make
it possible, but I haven't heard anything about it since then.

> odd SOA record though 20021402, month 14 ?
> 
> I also noticed that 
> f.5.ip6.int.            NS      ns.isi.edu.
> f.5.ip6.int.            NS      flag.ep.net.
> is still loaded onto the NS's and...

Ooops.

>  *** ip6.int SOA record at ns.isi.edu is not authoritative

I wouldn't mind too much if ip6.int could disappear quickly - *provided*
the RIRs and IANA (and whoever) get their act together and make 3FFE
reverse possible under ip6.arpa.

Gert Doering
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