From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:11:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CF8F0DC5-C12D-4098-A38D-30C9FA6978F2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515382C3.3080408@orlitzky.com>
On 27 March 2013, at 23:37, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> ...
>> Like Stroller I've been using net-misc/whois for ever and it does
>> what I want, but don't know what the other packages may be able to
>> do/do better. I would also be interested to find out why people
>> prefer using these.
>
> They're all identical. The whois protocol is stupid simple
The search I made before posting led me the wikipedia article which mentioned, for example, using thick and thin client models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois#Thin_and_thick_lookups
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.
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.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-28 19:12 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
2013-03-29 0:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
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