On 10/23/10, Silent-Hunter <cheery314@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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" <cheery314@xxxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:cheery314@xxxxxxxxxxx>> 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. >> > -- >> > users mailing list >> > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > 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. > HI Use this till it comes back dict -h dict.tu-chemnitz.de word Best Marvin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
