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Subject: Re: Why not work whois -6 ?
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On 1 Oct 2009, at 16:09, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote:

> FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 amd64
>
> # whois -6 2a01:d0::1
> whois: connect(): Connection refused
>
> In man whois written:
>     -6      Use the IPv6 Resource Center (6bone) database.  It  
> contains net-
>             work names and addresses for the IPv6 network.
>
>
> There are ideas on how to define membership of a particular block of  
> ipv6?

The 6bone whois server is dead AFAIK.
Try whois -h whois.ripe.net 2a01:d0::1

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Rui Paulo