Unable to reach RIPE-whois through IPv6

[Dominik Bay]

Hi Stefan,

On Sunday 29 April 2007 15:22:14 Stefan Neufeind wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can ping the IPv6-address of whois.ripe.net from here, but whois seems
> to be unresponsive. Turning to IPv4 it works fine.
>
> whois.ripe.net.         567     IN      A       193.0.0.135
> whois.ripe.net.         87      IN      AAAA    2001:610:240:0:193::202
>
>
> Anybody knows details? Or maybe somebody at RIPE could have a look?

Works for me:
eimann at laila:~$ whois -h [2001:610:240:0:193::202] 127.0.0.0
% This is the RIPE Whois query server #2.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html

% Note: This output has been filtered.
%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag

% Information related to '0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255'

inetnum:      0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255
netname:      IANA-BLK
descr:        The whole IPv4 address space
[...]

Regards,
Dominik