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Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.

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From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47431: Process Whois connection broken by remote peer.
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:57:31 +0800

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 2:30 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 09:39:20 +0800
> >
> > On Ubuntu 20.04, I'm using the self compiled git master version of Emacs.
> > It seems that the whois client in Emacs only works for some specific domain
> >  names, for example gnu.org and emacs.org, but for others like
> > facebook.com it just hangs and returns nothing. The following command
> > will trigger the error:
> >
> > "M-x RET whois RET facebook.com"
>
> It doesn't hang here (I'm not on Ubuntu, though).  It times out:
>
>   open-network-stream: make client process failed: Connection timed out, :name, Whois, :buffer, *Whois*, :host, rs.internic.net, :service, 43, :nowait, nil, :tls-parameters, nil, :coding, nil

How to obtain the above debug information?

> If I try a different server, it does work:
>
>   C-u M-x whois RET facebook.com RET whois.crsnic.net RET
>
> This returns immediately with a large *Whois* buffer.
>
> Perhaps some network expert could tell why we use by default a server
> that is less useful.



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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao <at> gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
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