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On Tuesday 26 Mar 2013 18:57:18 Michael Mol wrote: |
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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 |
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> > clients. |
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> > I think I have always used net-misc/whois in the past I now notice that a |
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> > BSD whois is available, a "generic" and an advanced jwhois. |
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> > Presumably there are some differences between the functionality provided |
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> > 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 |
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> > address. Primarily I'd like to get up-to-date and useful results from |
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> > something `whois 1.2.3.4 | grep -i abuse`. |
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> > TIA for any help, |
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> > |
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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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Like Stroller I've been using net-misc/whois for ever and it does what I want, |
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but don't know what the other packages may be able to do/do better. I would |
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also be interested to find out why people prefer using these. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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