Hi I will again suggest dict is broken... I probably last used it a week ago. I have two machines. One on Fedora 13 and another I ssh into running Ubuntu.. I cannot use dict on either machine. For me that rules out any problem I may have. And again www.dict.org will not come up for me. Best Marvin On 10/23/10, Paul Morgan <jumanjiman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > local dictionaries should not be necessary. > > -paul > > top-posted from gmail on android. apologies. > On Oct 23, 2010 9:03 PM, "Silent-Hunter" <cheery314@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On -10/01/37 11:59, Paul Morgan 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 >>> >> I figured it out. I didn't have any dictionaries installed. >> -- >> 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
