Whois borked.

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

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