dict not working

Marvin Kosmal mkosmal at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 04:57:29 UTC 2010


On 10/23/10, Silent-Hunter <cheery314 at hotmail.com> 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 at hotmail.com
>> <mailto:cheery314 at hotmail.com>> 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.
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> 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


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