On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:02:57 -0500, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:

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

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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:

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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.

% Note: this output has been filtered.

% Information related to ...

AfriNIC is busy with maintenance on their whois (and a few other things) this weekend:

Dear Colleagues,

Starting Friday 17 Feb at 1400UTC, we shall be doing maintenance works on the whois and MyAfriNIC services to take care of some key upgrades.

This may continue through the entire weekend, during which time, there could be intermittent lack of access to these services - which should be fully restored by Sunday 19 Feb 2000 UTC.

I will however forward this on to the relevant people so that they are aware. regards -- Graham Beneke Network Engineer | Neology (PTY) Ltd. graham@neology.co.za | http://www.neology.co.za/ Dir: +27-10-500-5906 | Suite 301, Block C, Eva Park Tel: +27-11-476-1933 | Cresta, Johannesburg Skype: grbeneke | Jabber: graham@neology.co.za