Subj : Re: Whois
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Mutant
Date : Mon Sep 20 2004 02:25 pm

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:17:19 +0000, Lenard wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:35:02 +0000, Mutant wrote:
> 
>>>> Are you willing to share your jwhois.conf file?
>>> 
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/jwhois/jwhois.html
>>> 
>>> Direct download;
>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/jwhois/jwhois-3.2.2.tar.gz
>> 
>> 
>> Well None of that works.
> 
> Hmmm....... got me a bit stumped......
> 
> $ jwhois --version
> jwhois version 3.2.2, Copyright (C) 1999-2003  Free Software Foundation,
> Inc. This program is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; you may
> redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> 
> It seems that your using the same ISP service (SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com)
> as me (check the headers). Something might not be quite right with your
> configuration. Check out the DNS (resolv.conf) and if needed add the IP
> address's of your local namesevers to it. For example(mine);
> 
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> nameserver 67.36.128.26
> nameserver 206.141.192.60


I can connect to a server but it ALWAYS times out. I have thrown -h -p
-i ect.. at the command-line. This is something. I thought I'd find the
"trick" here. Thanks for the help.

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