Re: Re: dict not working

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  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
>>     server dict0.us.dict.org
>>     server alt0.dict.org
> dict.org and alt0.dict.org resolve to miranda.org,
> but http://www.miranda.org/about/ says nothing about
> host dictd dictionaries.
>
> $ dig +short dict0.us.dict.org
> dega.dict.org.
> 152.2.131.238
>
> $ dig +short -x 152.2.131.238
> yinqian1.cs.unc.edu.
>
> $ for name in dict.org alt0.dict.org; do
>> dig +short $name
>> done
> 216.93.242.2
> miranda.org.
> 216.93.242.2
>
> $ dig +short -x 216.93.242.2
> 2.0/29.242.93.216.in-addr.arpa.
> 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
> ns1.miranda.org. admin.miranda.org. 2009102300 10800 3600 604800 10800
>
> $ dig +short -t soa dict.org
> ns1.miranda.org. hostmaster.dict.org. 2009022601 7200 3600 1814400 10800
>
>
>> i just ping'd dict.org and it is up. anyone know what could be causing
>> this?
> 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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