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grm
Asked: 2011-04-16 00:27:38 +0800 CST

jwhois not working

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I have installed jwhois on many systems, but can't get it to work. The port 43 is open through the firewall and I can do a telnet to the whois server on port 43, but whenver I run jwhois I get the following error:

[Querying whoisserver]
[Unable to connect to remote host]

Any idea on how to fix this issue?

whois

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is Debian Bug 542148.

    Not fixed in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS unfortunately.

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  2. For 10.04:

    1. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jwhois/4.0-2
    2. Download jwhois_4.0.orig.tar.gz to /usr/local/src.
    3. Extract and apply patch:
      cd /usr/local/src
tar zxf jwhois_4.0.orig.tar.gz
cd jwhois*
wget "https://launchpadlibrarian.net/59543349/jwhois_4.0-2.diff.gz"
gunzip *.gz
patch < jwhois_4.0-2.diff

    Then apply the fix for .com lookups:

    1. Visit http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542148
    2. Edit src/utils.c.
    3. Change line 291 to:
      if (error < 0 || !retval)

    Compile and install as usual:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install

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