Re: [db-wg] Bug?

[Denis Walker denis@localhost]

Dear Max,

We did some major network maintenance last night. Our OPS engineers have
been working hard all day to fix a few knock on effects of this work. We
believe we have now fixed this IPV6 problem with the web whois service.

Appologies for the trouble caused.

regards
Denis Walker
Software Engineering Department
RIPE NCC


Max Tulyev wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I got some troubles with web whois service at www.ripe.net.
>
> If my IP is 195.209.50.18 (IPv4) - I can do any queries. But if it is
> 2a01:d8:0:99:211:11ff:fe1f:bfc9 (IPv6) - I see this error message back
> to any of my queries (and to non-address queries too):
>
> %ERROR:203: address passing not allowed
> %
> % Sorry, you are not allowed to pass addresses on the query line.
> % Please contact us for such permission. For the moment,
> % continuing this will cause permanent denial of access.
>
> Mozilla Firefox tries IPv6 first if there is both addresses and
> connectivities...
>
> Is it a bug or a feature?
>