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

[Jeroen Massar]

Sascha Bielski wrote:
> > There was some discussion back in February of getting v6 
> connectivity
> > for that machine, but I don't recall seeing any updates. Is there a 
> > v6-capable WHOIS client available?
> 
> yes, telnet whoisserver 43.

Even better default out of the box Debian*, FreeBSD** and NetBSD***
clients ;)

* = The version I tested this with:
Package: whois
Version: 4.5.29
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>

** = FreeBSD 4.6+ (maybe lower)
*** = NetBSD 1.6+ (maybe lower)

8<------------------------------
jeroen@purgatory:~$ whois -h whois.ipv6.sixxs.net LIM-SIXXS-TESTING
% This is the SixXS Whois server.
% SixXS - http://www.sixxs.net.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
% Objects not ending in -SIXXS are
% cached from remote sources.

limerick:     LIM-SIXXS-TESTING
description:  This is the first test limerick
description:  inserted into the database
text:         Testing this thing
text:         made me sing
text:         I hope it will work
text:         and that the code wont bork
text:         nor ming
admin-c:      JRM1-RIPE
author:       JRM1-RIPE
remarks:      This object is generated from the SixXS database
remarks:      Abuse reports should go to abuse@sixxs.net
remarks:      Information can be found at http://www.sixxs.net/
changed:      info@sixxs.net 20020819
mnt-by:       SIXXS-MNT
source:       SIXXS
<SNIP>
------------------------------>8

$ host -t any whois.ipv6.sixxs.net
whois.ipv6.sixxs.net is an alias for noc.ipv6.sixxs.net.
$ host -t any noc.ipv6.sixxs.net
noc.ipv6.sixxs.net has AAAA address 3ffe:4007:1:1:210:dcff:fe20:7c7c

No IPv4 there to connect too :)

Greets,
 Jeroen