From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461) Description of problem: After a recent upgrade I get this (also after compiling whois from the source) [root@vennely root]# whois redhat.com Address family not supported by protocol initializing protocol stacks?!? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.9-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. whois redhat.com 2. 3. Actual Results: Address family not supported by protocol initializing protocol stacks?!? Expected Results: Display of info on redhat.com Additional info: whois 1.0.9-1 It apparently appeared in connection to the upgrade which among other things included the perl 5.6.1 upgrade
whois is no longer included in Fedora Core. It has been replaced by jwhois. Upgrade to lastest release of Fedora Core and try jwois, if this bug still occur, please reopen.