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On 27 March 2013, at 23:37, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> Like Stroller I've been using net-misc/whois for ever and it does |
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>> what I want, but don't know what the other packages may be able to |
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>> do/do better. I would also be interested to find out why people |
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>> prefer using these. |
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> They're all identical. The whois protocol is stupid simple |
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The search I made before posting led me the wikipedia article which mentioned, for example, using thick and thin client models. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois#Thin_and_thick_lookups |
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One might assume, for example, that a thin client might tend to give more accurate and up-to-date information, but of course there's also the issue that the whois server for the domain might move. Thus the client might need to be updated in a timely manner, too. |
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I have a Gentoo box here that, embarrassingly, hasn't been updated in several years. It seems to sometimes give different results than my laptop does. |
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Stroller. |
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