Hi Hadmut, > jwhois quite often hangs forever, e.g. > > jwhois -d 129.250.134.165 > > If this is a bug it should be fixed. > If this is not a bug, it definitely needs some kind of timeout.
While I can't replicate that bug here, it's likely that this is caused by the server not responding. In the current stable version of jwhois, there is a problem with timeouts. This code has been entirely rewritten and made more configurable in the CVS version. A new release of jwhois is expected shortly, and hopefully it will appear in Debian not long afterwards. -- Jonas Öberg Free Software Foundation Europe ( Join the Fellowship ) Tel. +46-31-780 21 61 Mob. +46-733 423 962 ( http://fsfe.org )
