Q: I try to connect to my site after installing JoomlaStats and I get following warning (and probably it takes about 60 seconds to load the first page):
(note: the line number may be different)
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Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to 193.0.0.135:43 in /components/com_joomlastats/joomlastats.inc.php on line 516 |
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Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to 200.160.2.15:43 in /components/com_joomlastats/joomlastats.inc.php on line 516 |
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Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to 196.216.2.1:43 in /components/com_joomlastats/joomlastats.inc.php on line 516 |
A: To be able to lookup the country when using a domain that does not contain any country information in it (like .com or .net) JoomlaStats does an fsockopen to the whois.ripe.net database on port 43 (WHOIS service).
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