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

Jeroen Massar jeroen@unfix.org
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:25:01 +0200


Gert Doering [mailto:gert@space.net] 
> 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...
If it's running from inetd it would be a sinch, otherwise some tunnel
tools could do the trick (or read my netcat6 lips :)

> > 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.
And nothing has been heared about it ever since indeed...
So what's up with this ?

> > 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.

That 2002::/16 entry isn't visible under ip6.arpa....

Greets,
 Jeroen