On -10/01/37 11:59, Paul Morgan wrote:
local dictionaries should not be necessary.
-paul
top-posted from gmail on android. apologies.
On Oct 23, 2010 9:03 PM, "Silent-Hunter" <cheery...@hotmail.com
<mailto:cheery...@hotmail.com>> 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 <http://dict.org>
>>> server dict0.us.dict.org <http://dict0.us.dict.org>
>>> server alt0.dict.org <http://alt0.dict.org>
>> dict.org <http://dict.org> and alt0.dict.org <http://alt0.dict.org>
resolve to miranda.org <http://miranda.org>,
>> but http://www.miranda.org/about/ says nothing about
>> host dictd dictionaries.
>>
>> $ dig +short dict0.us.dict.org <http://dict0.us.dict.org>
>> dega.dict.org <http://dega.dict.org>.
>> 152.2.131.238
>>
>> $ dig +short -x 152.2.131.238
>> yinqian1.cs.unc.edu <http://yinqian1.cs.unc.edu>.
>>
>> $ for name in dict.org <http://dict.org> alt0.dict.org
<http://alt0.dict.org>; do
>>> dig +short $name
>>> done
>> 216.93.242.2
>> miranda.org <http://miranda.org>.
>> 216.93.242.2
>>
>> $ dig +short -x 216.93.242.2
>> 2.0/29.242.93.216.in-addr.arpa.
>> miranda.org <http://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 <http://miranda.org>
>> ns1.miranda.org <http://ns1.miranda.org>. admin.miranda.org
<http://admin.miranda.org>. 2009102300 10800 3600 604800 10800
>>
>> $ dig +short -t soa dict.org <http://dict.org>
>> ns1.miranda.org <http://ns1.miranda.org>. hostmaster.dict.org
<http://hostmaster.dict.org>. 2009022601 7200 3600 1814400 10800
>>
>>
>>> i just ping'd dict.org <http://dict.org> and it is up. anyone know
what could be causing
>>> this?
>> dict0.us.dict.org <http://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.
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Yeah, but for me they are cause I'm not connected to the internet all
the time. Plus, when dict.org isn't working, dict will still work.
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