The mentioned problem turned out to be a bug in whois.nic.ch when handling IPv6 requests. The bug only appears in rare events. We will of course fix it.
Daniel On 27.04.15 10:38, Daniel Stirnimann wrote: > Hello Benoît > > I'm not sure at what time and from which IPv6 address you tried. > I just tried to find log entries with my co-workers operating > whois.nic.ch for 2001:4060:dead::/48 on the 26th Apr 2015 and found nothing. > > If you want me to look into this, can you provide exact information? > > Regards, > Daniel, SWITCH > > On 26.04.15 12:24, Benoît Panizzon wrote: >> Hello >> >> Who else experiences that problem since a couple of days? >> >> $ whois direktion.ch >> The number of requests per client per time interval is >> restricted. You have exceeded this limit. >> Please wait a moment and try again. >> >> (query was done via IPv6) >> >> $ whois -h 130.59.31.241 direktion.ch >> whois: This information is subject to an Acceptable Use Policy. >> See http://www.nic.ch/terms/aup.html >> >> >> Domain name: >> direktion.ch >> [...] >> >> works! >> >> I'm not doing more than max 10 queries/week from that specific ipv6 address, >> probably much less. >> >> I'm not aware of having other clients within my /48 network doing any >> queries >> to whois.nic.ch (yes, my blacklist scripts do a lot of queries to >> whois.ripe.net and other RIR's to get abuse contacts, but not to switch) >> >> -Benoît- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swinog mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog >> > -- SWITCH Daniel Stirnimann, SWITCH-CERT Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland phone +41 44 268 15 15, direct +41 44 268 16 24 [email protected], http://www.switch.ch _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog

