dict not working

[jack wallen]

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)

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

i just ping'd dict.org and it is up. anyone know what could be causing
this? 

> I don't know if this is relevant but the dictionary app on the panel not
> longer works.
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