Whois - unable to connect.

[Ed Greshko]

Simon Slater wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 06:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>>>       I suppose the config file is the first place to look, but what
>>>       
>> is the
>>     
>>> relevant section?  Couldn't see anything relevant in bugzilla.  I'm
>>> using F8 if that makes a difference.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Q1   Are all whois requests timing out or just this one?  e.g.  whois
>> cnn.com  works? fails?
>>
>>     
> [simon at ipex ~]$ whois cnn.com
> [Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
> [Unable to connect to remote host]
> [simon at ipex ~]$ 
> All for the past while, Ed, but not sure when it started.
>   
>> Q2   Have you tried something like wireshark or tcpdump and filtered
>> on
>> port 43 (whois port)?
>>
>>     
> Nothing at all on wireshark port 43 TCP nor UDP. So the request is not
> being sent at all?
>   
Right...  Not going out at all....  Something with your firewall setup?

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