Re: Meanwhile...
> dig -6 www.theregister.co.uk still hangs
Works for me...
$ dig -6 www.theregister.co.uk +short | wc -l
2
Maybe you should use a resolver that is reachable over IPv6 transport? :)
I guess the point you wanted to make was this though...
$ dig www.theregister.co.uk AAAA +short | wc -l
0