[Dnsmasq-discuss] whois doesn't find entries

Helmut Hullen Hullen at t-online.de
Sun Aug 17 18:34:00 BST 2008


Hallo, Simon,

Du (simon) meintest am 17.08.08:

>>         whois 128.163.2.43
>>
>> doesn't send a whois entry, but when I change from "dnsmasq" to
>> "bind" I get the desired information.

> I'm not sure how this is related to dnsmasq: when I run whois, the
> only DNS activity I see is IPv4 and IPv6 lookups for
> "whois.ripe.net". Are you saying that those lookups are failing, or
> is there something else I don't know about?

I see this (annoying) behaviour most times when I call "whois". And in  
every case switching to "bind" as DNS cures the problem.

But now I am a bit confused:
some time ago "dnsmasq" didn't tell the "whois" information,
I switched to "bind" and got the information
I switched back to "dnsmasq", did some other work - and now I get the  
"whois" information via "dnsmasq" too.

Maybe that's an error which is related to the DNS of my uplink  
(kabeldeutschland)?

Next time I'll try to restart "dnsmasq".

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut



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