I've been watching bug #336195 for a year now with no progress, and I'm hoping that this release ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/files/dictd/dictd-1.12.0/ ) as of Jan 09, 2011 may resolve this test failure, As a side note, libmaa, which is a dependency of dict, also produced by the dict project, also has had a recent release of 1.3.0, and I don't know if this is of use or not.( http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/files/libmaa/libmaa-1.3.0/ ) Thanks.
Thank you Kent. Fixed.