Problems with whois.ripe.net

[Trond Skjesol]

RIPE is multihomed with a prefix from Surfnet. I may not reach RIPE via 
CW and surfnet will never be tried.

When shall RIPE begin to use an address that works? This problem arises 
quit often.

  -Trond

traceroute6 whois.ripe.net
traceroute to whois.ripe.net (2001:610:240:25:43:0:c100:49b) from 
2001:700:1:0:21e:4fff:fe94:e61f, 30 hops max, 16 byte packets
  1  teknobyen-gw.uninett.no (2001:700:1::2)  0.922 ms  0.979 ms  0.908 ms
  2  trd-gw.uninett.no (2001:700:0:50b::1)  1.581 ms  1.215 ms  1.033 ms
  3  oslo-gw.uninett.no (2001:700:0:27::1)  9.396 ms  9.115 ms  19.385 ms
  4  se-tug.nordu.net (2001:948:0:f041::1)  16.908 ms  17.245 ms  17.204 ms
  5  dk-uni.nordu.net (2001:948:0:f056::2)  33.174 ms  33.405 ms  32.869 ms
  6  dk-ore.nordu.net (2001:948:0:f055::1)  34.224 ms  34.101 ms  34.181 ms
  7  nordunet.rt2.cop.dk.geant2.net (2001:798:15:10aa::1)  30.83 ms 
30.089 ms  30.919 ms
  8  so-5-0-0.rt1.ams.nl.geant2.net (2001:798:cc:1501:2201::2)  46.989 
ms  47.475 ms  47.228 ms
  9  so-4-0-0.rt1.lon.uk.geant2.net (2001:798:cc:2201:2801::2)  52.071 
ms  51.356 ms  51.638 ms
10  telia-v6-gw.rt1.lon.uk.geant2.net (2001:798:28:10dd::6)  54.908 ms 
54.01 ms  54.911 ms
11  ldn-ipv6-b1-link.ipv6.telia.net (2001:2000:3010::1)  54.837 ms 
55.043 ms  55.24 ms
12  2001:5001:200:6::1 (2001:5001:200:6::1)  90.404 ms  90.159 ms  90.488 ms
13  ge-1-0-0-200-bcr2.fra.cw.net (2001:5000:0:14::2)  90.74 ms  90.199 
ms  99.797 ms
14  so-1-2-0-dcr2.fra.cw.net (2001:5000:0:f::1)  90.819 ms  90.236 ms 
89.482 ms
15  so-4-0-0-dcr1.amd.cw.net (2001:5000:0:e::2)  103.69 ms  104.23 ms 
108.96 ms
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