whois.internic.net / whois.crsnic.net IPv6 timeouts

[Stephen Frost <sfrost () snowman net>]

All,

  Don't know if it'll help or if this is simply old news to most, but
  the whois systems (whois.internic.net/whois.crsnic.net) have AAAA
  records and happily answer TCP/43 requests w/ the usual blurb, but all
  the servers I've hit then fail to actually provide data and instead
  the whois client (Ubuntu 13.04) simply time-outs.

sfrost@tamriel:/home/sfrost> whois -h 2001:503:5ae2:1060::74 networksolutions.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Timeout.

  Servers that I've tried so far (all IPv6 addresses I got through
  running 'host whois.crsnic.net'):

  2001:503:5419:1060::74
  2001:503:3227:1060::74
  2001:503:6810:1060::74
  2001:503:bfb0:1060::74
  2001:500:30ff:1060::74
  2001:503:7bbf:1060::74
  2001:502:be98:1060::74
  2001:502:8c25:1060::74

  Anyone from NetSol care?  It's not the end of the world, but it
  certainly is quite annoying..  Judging by some complaints on the 'net,
  looks to be a rather long-standing issue too (there's a Debian bug
  #683187 which mentions similar issues from nearly a year ago..).

        Thanks,

                Stephen

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