On 10/23/10, Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Marvin Kosmal <[email protected]> wrote: >> I can get it to work this way >> >> dict -h dict.tu-chemnitz.de word >> >> but, I haven't had to use the -h option in the past. > > dict.org appears to be down -- it's been this way for at least a day > or two (I noticed it wasn't working earlier this week, but I don't > recall when.) Googling also reveals that this is a widespread issue. > > Adding the dict server you found to /etc/dictd/dict.conf, right after > localhost, made dict behave normally for me (modulo sending requests > to Denmark, but that doesn't concern me overmuch. :) > > It *appears* that all three of the dict servers I had configured went > down at the same time -- that seems like a particularly poor choice of > defaults, but perhaps it's more complex than I realize. > > --Rogan > _______________________________________________ >
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