setting up whois
 

I'm having problems performing whois queries. here is and example:

[root@test /]# whois yahoo.com
[Querying whois.internic.net]
[Unable to connect to remote host]

Can anyone tell me what the fix is for this?

Tried adding flags "-d" and "-s"?

Here is the output (same as before)

[root@test mail]# whois -d yahoo.com
[Querying whois.internic.net]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
[root@test mail]# whois -s yahoo.com
[Querying whois.internic.net]
[Unable to connect to remote host]
[root@test mail]#

Are you connected to the internet?

Yup. I am connected to the Internet behind a NAT.

I always had that trouble when i would use my router as a dns source which in turn discovered my isps DNS.

It seemed to work when using direct DNS numbers in my /etc/resolve.conf

Worth a try atleast