title: ECONNRESET (Whois::ConnectionError) - Error Trying to Query Whois in Ruby
body: <p>I'm writing a simple program in Ruby to check if a list of domains is taken.  Basically it cycles through a list, and uses the following function to check.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>require 'rubygems'
  require 'whois'
  
  def check_domain(domain)
    c = Whois::Client.new
    c.query("google.com").available?
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The program keeps erroring out (even when I hardcode in google.com), and prints the message below.  Given how simple the program is, I've run out of ideas - any suggestions?</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/whois-2.0.2/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:165:in `query_the_socket': Errno::ECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer (Whois::ConnectionError)
  from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/whois-2.0.2/lib/whois/server/adapters/verisign.rb:41:in `request'
  from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/whois-2.0.2/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:113:in `query'
  from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/whois-2.0.2/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:150:in `buffer_start'
  from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/whois-2.0.2/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:112:in `query'
  from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/whois-2.0.2/lib/whois/client.rb:90:in `query'
  from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in `timeout'
  from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/whois-2.0.2/lib/whois/client.rb:87:in `query'
  from checker.rb:7:in `check_domain'
  from checker.rb:14
  from checker.rb:11:in `each'
  from checker.rb:11
  </code></pre>