Re: Fedora 20 whois problem

[Khemara Lyn]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I have enabled IPv6 and that seems to have messed
it up. After disabling IPv6, it now works again.

Regards,
Khem

On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 10:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/09/14 10:07, Khemara Lyn wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > I seem to have problem with whois command.
> > whois x.x.x.x
> > [Querying whois.apnic.net]
> > [Unable to connect to remote host]
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ whois 202.79.24.36
> [Querying whois.apnic.net]
> [whois.apnic.net]
> % [whois.apnic.net]
> % Whois data copyright terms
> http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
>
> % Information related to '202.79.24.1 - 202.79.24.254'
>
> inetnum:        202.79.24.1 - 202.79.24.254
> netname:        WICAM_NOC
> descr:          WICAM Network Operation Center
> country:        KH
> admin-c:        VL188-AP
> tech-c:         VL188-AP
> status:         ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
> mnt-by:         MAINT-KH-WICAM
> changed:        [e-mail] 20071127
> source:         APNIC
>
> person:         Vidol Loeung
> nic-hdl:        VL188-AP
> e-mail:         [e-mail]
> address:        #239 Mao Tse Tung St.
> phone:          [phone]
> fax-no:         [phone]
> country:        KH
> changed:        [e-mail] 20060614
> mnt-by:         MAINT-NEW
> source:         APNIC
>
> So, it works fine here in Taiwan....
>
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ host whois.apnic.net
> whois.apnic.net has address 202.12.29.220
> whois.apnic.net has IPv6 address 2001:dc0:2001:11::220
> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ping whois.apnic.net
> PING whois.apnic.net (202.12.29.220) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from whois.apnic.net (202.12.29.220): icmp_seq=1 ttl=240
> time=224 ms
> 64 bytes from whois.apnic.net (202.12.29.220): icmp_seq=2 ttl=240
> time=224 ms
> 64 bytes from whois.apnic.net (202.12.29.220): icmp_seq=3 ttl=240
> time=224 ms
>
> So, it is pingable.....
>
> Can you ping it?
>
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