Anyone else seeing the radb.net whois server as being down?
$ date
Sat Jan 23 00:04:29 EET 2016
$ ping whois.radb.net
PING whois.radb.net (207.75.117.18) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- whois.radb.net ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6047ms
$ telnet whois.radb.net 43
Trying 207.75.117.18...
^C
Possibly a routing issue, since it looks good to me:
% date
Sat Jan 23 03:58:18 BRST 2016
% telnet whois.radb.net 43
Trying 129.250.120.86...
Connected to whois.radb.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
AS8805
aut-num: AS8805
as-name: ASN-ISC-DE
descr: iSC internet Service Center GmbH
descr: Postfach 570561
descr: D-22774 Hamburg
descr: Germany
descr: http://www.isc.de
org: ORG-iiSC1-RIPE
remarks: -UPSTREAMS-------------------------------------------
import: from AS174 # COGENT
...[truncate]...
On the other hand I noticed my DNS got a different IP address.
% host whois.radb.net
whois.radb.net has address 129.250.120.86