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benjojo posted 22 Jan 2026 14:03 +0000

I would love to understand what is going on inside IDNIC, The IRR (outside of the APNIC hosted endpoints) hasn't worked for nearly a entire year:

$ curl ftp://irr-mirror.idnic.net/
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0               4 Jan 30  2025 IDNIC.CURRENTSERIAL
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          757397 Jan 30  2025 idnic.db.gz

$ curl ftp://irr.idnic.net/
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0               4 Jan 30  2025 IDNIC.CURRENTSERIAL
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          757397 Jan 30  2025 idnic.db.gz

and their RPKI repo has AAAA records, but the v6 addresses don't work. this may seem harmless because things will eventually fall back to the A/IPv4 record, but that doesn't actually happen in NAT64 environments...

I tried emailing them about this and have never got a response (even trying to go via APNIC to see if they had any better contacts). For a NIC for a country with a population that is reasonably comparable to the United States this is an impressive level of abandonment to infrastructure.