Has anyone else noticed jwhois queries to have quit working? I get root # jwhois 128.111.24.43 [Querying whois.arin.net] [Error creating socket] [Unable to connect to remote host]
If I change the default server, still get the same message. Changing to alpha style notation: jwhois ftp.ucsb.edu I get a bunch of blab about [...] A Web interface for the .EDU EDUCAUSE Whois Server is available at: http://whois.educause.net [...] no match The address is well known and registered and a regular whois finds it immediately: whois 128.111.24.43 OrgName: University of California, Santa Barbara OrgID: UCSB [...] Far as I know jwhois was working until very recently and the current failures may have started following an -uD world although as eix reports below... jwhois has not been updated since 10/2007 and there have been no update pkgs in that time.. eix reports: eix -I jwhois [I] net-misc/jwhois Available versions: 3.2.3-r1 4.0 {idn nls} Installed versions: 4.0(12:05:23 10/07/07)(nls) Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/jwhois/ Description: Advanced Internet Whois client capable of recursive queries Can anyone tell what the problem is? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
