Bug#410327: jwhois hangs forever

[Hadmut Danisch]

Package: jwhois
Version: 3.2.3-4
Severity: important

Hi,

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.

regards


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages jwhois depends on:
ii  adduser  3.97Add and remove users and groups
ii  dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc62.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime

Versions of packages jwhois recommends:
ii  lynx-ssl [lynx] 1:2.8.4.1b-3 Text-mode WWW Browser supporting S

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Bug#410327: jwhois hangs forever

[Jonas Oberg]

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.


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