HI Dict not working here either.. www.dict.org not coming up. I suspect something wrong on dict end. Marvin On 10/23/10, Paul Morgan <jumanjiman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:32:19AM -0400, jack wallen wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 08:41 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 19:22 -0700, Silent-Hunter wrote: >> > > Dict will not do anything. I type "dict haul" or "dict love" and it >> > > just sits there. It used to display a definition, but now it won't. I >> > > wonder if it was something I did. >> >> I don't know if this is the problem, but if you issue the command: >> >> dict -v word (where word is the word you want to look up) > > use strace to get more visibility into what's going on: > strace -s99 dict -v word > > dict is working correctly. The problem is with the servers. > >> you eventually see that dict can not connect to any of the servers: >> >> server localhost >> server dict.org >> server dict0.us.dict.org >> server alt0.dict.org > > dict.org and alt0.dict.org resolve to miranda.org, > but http://www.miranda.org/about/ says nothing about > host dictd dictionaries. > > $ dig +short dict0.us.dict.org > dega.dict.org. > 152.2.131.238 > > $ dig +short -x 152.2.131.238 > yinqian1.cs.unc.edu. > > $ for name in dict.org alt0.dict.org; do >> dig +short $name >> done > 216.93.242.2 > miranda.org. > 216.93.242.2 > > $ dig +short -x 216.93.242.2 > 2.0/29.242.93.216.in-addr.arpa. > miranda.org. > > According to `whois` lookups, the master records > have not changed recently. > > Does anybody know if these are the same IPs > that have been used previously? > > > It would appear that DNS has not recently changed, > but we all know the SOA serial number is a hand-edit > that is not required to reflect a date: > > $ dig +short -t soa miranda.org > ns1.miranda.org. admin.miranda.org. 2009102300 10800 3600 604800 10800 > > $ dig +short -t soa dict.org > ns1.miranda.org. hostmaster.dict.org. 2009022601 7200 3600 1814400 10800 > > >> i just ping'd dict.org and it is up. anyone know what could be causing >> this? > > dict0.us.dict.org fails immediately if you ping the dict port. > the others timeout if you do the same. > > (/etc/services lists the ports, and strace shows the actual > transport and port being used) > > $ for host in 152.2.131.238 216.93.242.2; >> do echo ping $host for 5 seconds on TCP port 2628 >> time tcping -t 5 $host 2628 >> done > ping 152.2.131.238 for 5 seconds on TCP port 2628 > 152.2.131.238 port 2628 closed. > > real 0m0.034s > user 0m0.001s > sys 0m0.001s > > ping 216.93.242.2 for 5 seconds on TCP port 2628 > 216.93.242.2 port 2628 user timeout. > > real 0m5.007s > user 0m0.001s > sys 0m0.000s > > -paul > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
