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On 03/26/2013 01:54 PM, Stroller wrote: |
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> Searching portage, I find there are quite a number of alternative whois clients. |
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> I think I have always used net-misc/whois in the past I now notice that a BSD whois is available, a "generic" and an advanced jwhois. |
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> Presumably there are some differences between the functionality provided by these packages, can anyone tell me which is the "best", please? |
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> I use whois a lot for looking up the abuse address of a host, by IP address. Primarily I'd like to get up-to-date and useful results from something `whois 1.2.3.4 | grep -i abuse`. |
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> TIA for any help, |
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> Stroller. |
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FWIW, I'm using jwhois. I don't remember why I settled on that one over |
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a different whois client, though. |
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