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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:17:13 +0200
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        B H <bernt@bah.homeip.net>
Subject:   Re: Whois borked.
Message-ID:  <200703081817.13781.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <45F02A61.4030708@bah.homeip.net>
References:  <45F02A61.4030708@bah.homeip.net>

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On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:23, B H wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I´ve upgraded from 6.1-stable to 6.2-STABLE and now whois don't like me 
> any more.
> 
> 
> 
> $ whois ipnumber
> whois: whois.arin.net: servname not supported for ai_socktype

Is it configured to the services DB?
Do a "grep whois /etc/services". You
should see there - among aothers - a
line like this:
nicname          43/tcp    whois
If not, add it.

HTH, Nikos



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