[outages] whois.arin.net refuses connections on v6

[Tony McCrory]

Starting in the last 24 hours I've not been able to query
whois.arin.netover v6.  v4 works fine.

Anyone else see the same?

Tony

$ whois -h whois.arin.net 127.0.0.0
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
$ host whois.arin.net
whois.arin.net has address 199.71.0.48
whois.arin.net has address 199.71.0.47
whois.arin.net has address 199.71.0.46
whois.arin.net has address 199.212.0.48
whois.arin.net has address 199.212.0.46
whois.arin.net has address 199.212.0.47
whois.arin.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:13::47
whois.arin.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:31::47
whois.arin.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:13::46
whois.arin.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:31::48
whois.arin.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:13::48
whois.arin.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:31::46
$ whois -h 2001:500:13::47 127.0.0.0
[Querying 2001:500:13::47]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
$ whois -h 2001:500:31::47 127.0.0.0
[Querying 2001:500:31::47]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
$ whois -h 2001:500:31::48 127.0.0.0
[Querying 2001:500:31::48]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
$ whois -h 2001:500:13::48 127.0.0.0
[Querying 2001:500:13::48]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
$ whois -h 2001:500:13::46 127.0.0.0
[Querying 2001:500:13::46]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
$ whois -h 2001:500:31::46 127.0.0.0
[Querying 2001:500:31::46]
[Unable to connect to remote host]

v4 works:
$ whois -h 199.212.0.47 127.0.0.0
[Querying 199.212.0.47]
[199.212.0.47]
#
# Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
#     "n 127.0.0.0"
#
[....]

Example traceroute:
traceroute to 2001:500:31::47 (2001:500:31::47), 30 hops max, 80 byte
packets
 1  ...  11.519 ms  17.422 ms  28.084 ms
 2  gige-g2-20.core1.fra1.he.net (2001:470:0:69::1)  45.229 ms  45.216 ms
 45.741 ms
 3  10gigabitethernet5-3.core1.lon1.he.net (2001:470:0:1d2::1)  58.885 ms
 58.871 ms  59.170 ms
 4  10gigabitethernet7-4.core1.nyc4.he.net (2001:470:0:128::1)  134.745 ms
 138.270 ms  134.706 ms
 5  10gigabitethernet5-3.core1.lax1.he.net (2001:470:0:10e::1)  192.136 ms
 192.169 ms  188.694 ms
 6  10gigabitethernet4-2.core3.fmt2.he.net (2001:470:0:18d::1)  198.986 ms
 186.827 ms  181.843 ms
 7  10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.fmt2.he.net (2001:470:0:23b::2)  175.135 ms
 157.867 ms  157.849 ms
 8  10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.sjc2.he.net (2001:470:0:31::2)  157.421 ms
 158.392 ms  157.949 ms
 9  peering.sjc6.arin.net (2001:504:0:1:0:39:3220:1)  153.179 ms  152.843
ms  153.168 ms
10  peering.sjc6.arin.net (2001:504:0:1:0:39:3220:1)  153.119 ms !X
 156.999 ms !X  153.701 ms !X
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