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Subject: Re: Why not work whois -6 ?
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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?

I just committed r197725 in HEAD to deal with this, thanks for the
reminder. I will MFC the change as soon as it's possible to do so.


Doug

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