From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:57:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5151EF8E.4030304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D0EC0C7-8302-4C94-B5E9-E95BA916213F@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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On 03/26/2013 01:54 PM, Stroller wrote:
> Searching portage, I find there are quite a number of alternative whois clients.
>
> 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.
>
> Presumably there are some differences between the functionality provided by these packages, can anyone tell me which is the "best", please?
>
> 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`.
>
> TIA for any help,
>
> Stroller.
>
>
FWIW, I'm using jwhois. I don't remember why I settled on that one over
a different whois client, though.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-26 17:54 [gentoo-user] Best whois client? Stroller
2013-03-26 18:57 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2013-03-27 10:08 ` Mick
2013-03-27 23:37 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-03-28 4:08 ` Kevin Brandstatter
2013-03-28 19:11 ` Stroller
2013-03-29 0:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
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