Problems with whois.ripe.net

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:47:18AM +0100, Trond Skjesol wrote:
> RIPE is multihomed with a prefix from Surfnet. I may not reach RIPE via 
> CW and surfnet will never be tried.

Actually this seems to be a problem with the route from RIPE *back* to
you.

I can reach RIPE via C&W just fine:

traceroute6 to whois.ripe.net (2001:610:240:25:43:0:c100:49b) from 2001:608:0:736::18, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
 1  Cisco-M-XXI-Vlan736.Space.Net (2001:608:0:736::1)  0.460 ms  0.245 ms  0.231 ms
 2  ge-1-2-0-zcr2.muc.cw.net (2001:5001:100:17::1)  0.466 ms  0.459 ms  0.366 ms
 3  so-6-3-0-dcr2.fra.cw.net (2001:5000:0:63::1)  7.151 ms so-4-3-0-dcr2.fra.cw.net (2001:5000:0:cd::1)  7.530 ms so-6-3-0-dcr2.fra.cw.net (2001:5000:0:63::1)  7.169 ms
 4  so-4-0-0-dcr1.amd.cw.net (2001:5000:0:e::2)  20.819 ms  27.160 ms  24.985 ms
 5  nikrtr.ripe.net (2001:7f8:1::a500:3333:1)  21.655 ms  21.690 ms  23.713 ms
 6  * * *

the "* * *" here seem to be "stupid firewall thingie" related - pinging
whois.ripe.net works perfectly well:

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:608:0:736::18 --> 2001:610:240:25:43:0:c100:49b
16 bytes from 2001:610:240:25:43:0:c100:49b, icmp_seq=0 hlim=59 time=21.478 ms
16 bytes from 2001:610:240:25:43:0:c100:49b, icmp_seq=1 hlim=59 time=21.426 ms
^?
--- whois.ripe.net ping6 statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

Gert Doering
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