Description of problem: I do not get results with defaults when querying a .DE -domain (Germany) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): jwhois-3.2.2-14 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. whois web.de Actual results: [Querying http://www.denic.de/en/whois/data.jsp] Expected results: listing of domain Additional info: when quering with whois web.de -h whois.thur.de I get correct results.
I have the solution: jwhois seems to depend on an installed package "lynx" ( I saw a message about browser not found via gnome-networktools). I seems to be unable to fetch the information with another text browser or by itself.
Comment #1 is correct: a web browser is necessary for http queries. The default configuration uses lynx, but jwhois can't depend on lynx (#161282) because it can use other browsers (at least w3m) if so configured. There is a separate bug in jwhois which can cause jwhois to exit after writing the [Querying ...] line without reporting that executing the browser failed. This bug will be fixed in rawhide jwhois-3.2.3-2. Thanks for your report.