dict.org not available

[BoB]

Hello,
First, Thank You for this great piece of software; I am using version 1.46 [64-bit] on Windows 8 Desktop. As I was using it to read a book in my Calibre library, I tried using the dictionary function.
I highlighted a word, right-clicked it and selected "Lookup in dictionary (Ctrl-L)" and it could not access it.
I tried to manually go to Dict.org, but Chrome timed out with "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.dict.org"
I do not know if the site is down, down for maintenance, or gone; I just know it was not available now.

[Richo (rd2101)]

I too had the same experience and the error message I got is as follows:

Failed to connect to dict.org

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/viewer/dictionary.py", line 38, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/viewer/dictionary.py", line 31, in define
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/dictclient.py", line 43, in __init__
File "lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
error: [Errno 60] Operation timed out

I am using OS X 10.9.4 (Mavericks), Calibre 1.45, and the desktop viewer.

[Richo (rd2101)]

The same error occurs in Calibre 1.46 for Mac

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

dict.org is indeed down at the moment, if it does not return in a few
days I will have to look into replacing it, probably with wikitionary.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

 status fixreleased