[outages] ARIN whois at 2001:500:4:1::81 broken?

[Seth Mattinen]

Seth Mattinen wrote:
> I've been trying to do some whois lookups around 22:00 Pacific time, and
> whois.arin.net doesn't seem reachable at 2001:500:4:1::81 . Can anyone
> else out there confirm, or is it just me?
> 

I figured it out; return traffic coming back to me through Hurricane
Electric was being dropped for whatever reason. I shut off my BGP
session with them and it started working right away.

~Seth