Whois - unable to connect.
Simon Slater
pyevet at aapt.net.au
Thu Nov 20 00:25:54 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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?
>
I think I got the iptables syntax wrong on that try. Someone's just
dropped in. I'll post back soon with the results.
--
Hooroo,
Simon
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