recent whois is broken on my machine, how yours?

Dennis Veatch dennisveatch at bellsouth.net
Thu Aug 24 16:58:56 UTC 2006


On Thursday 24 August 2006 11:04, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > There is a problem with recent whois update: 4.7.15. It simply does not
> > work for me displaying: 'Bad value for ai_flags' when I try to query any
> > IP address. It looks other people encounter this problem too.
> > Here you have links to other problem report:
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-commit/2006-August/005533.html
> > and a fix:
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-commit/2006-August/005535.html
> >
> > We should make any decision how we solve it: patching whois or playing
> > with glibc?
>
> OK. No response. Here is a fix I made for lunar. I chose to patch whois.
> Works for me.
>
> have a nice day,
> Zbigniew 'zbiggy' Luszpinski

Thanks zbiggy. I believe this is at least for now the better way to go than 
twiddling with glibc. 

Applied, tested and updated moonbase.

Thanks.

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