[arin-discuss] Flaky whois

[Randy Carpenter]

It's looking to me like it might be some intermittent funkiness with IPv6 connectivity. Strange that it only affects whois...


-Randy

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> 
> I tried this this morning quite a few times and my results are all
> clean and
> consistent -- I'm doing this from public wireless as well:
> 
> hannigan at clue-store> time whois 28.0.0.0
> 
> real    0m0.245s
> user    0m0.001s
> sys    0m0.004s
> 
> 
> That symptom reminds me of broken Solaris DNS, reverse IIRC.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> -M<
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/25/11 6:26 AM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Randy Carpenter
> > <rcarpen at network1.net>
> > wrote:
> >> 
> >> Does anyone have any idea when the ARIN whois is going to be
> >> stable? It is
> >> been hit or miss for about a week. It generally just hangs via
> >> web, and times
> >> out via commandline whois.
> >> 
> > 
> > at the last nanog (or a previous one?) Mark Kosters had a preso
> > about
> > some sudden ramp up of whois traffic (a lightning talk perhaps I'm
> > remembering?). At that time I believe he said they were seeing
> > intermediate issues but had things in hand (aside from the wonder
> > of
> > where the traffic came from, something related he thought to oauth
> > login validations?).
> > 
> > Perhaps the ramp up continued up? Mark?
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