[outages] whois.afrinic.net IPv6 down?

whois -n 81.192.53.76 [Querying whois.afrinic.net] [Unable to connect to remote host]

telnet whois.afrinic.net whois Trying 2001:42d0:0:410::130... telnet: connect to address 2001:42d0:0:410::130: Connection refused Trying 196.216.2.130... Connected to whois.afrinic.net. Escape character is '^]'. % This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

My poor whois client doesn't seem to retry over IPv4 :-( Forcing it to use IPv4 works:

whois -h 196.216.2.130 -n x.x.x.x [Querying 196.216.2.130] [196.216.2.130] % This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

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