About:
whois supports all protocol extensions (RIPE, 6bone, CRSNIC) with the familiar RIPE command line interface and IPv6 support. It also automagically queries the right registry for all domains and most netblocks.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
This release adds the .jpn.com, .web.com, .bj, .ht, and .ky TLD servers, updates the .kz, .mo, .sb, .sn, .uy, and .uz TLD servers, adds support for the -afrinic, -idnic, and -uynic NIC handles, checks the whole hide_strings[] and updates when needed, and adds some preliminary and non-working support for libxcrypt to mkpasswd.

Author:
Marco d'Itri <md+whois (at) linux (dot) it> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.46/10.00 (11 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.linux.it/~md/software/
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/net/whois/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.7.15	14-Aug-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.7.15	Minor bugfixes	14-Aug-2006 20:57
4.7.8	N/A	30-Sep-2005 15:22
4.6.13	Minor bugfixes	11-Apr-2004 00:54
4.6.9	Minor feature enhancements	20-Feb-2004 01:41
4.6.6	Minor bugfixes	25-Jun-2003 21:25
4.6.3	Minor feature enhancements	03-Apr-2003 02:52
4.5.31	Minor feature enhancements	14-Oct-2002 00:26
4.5.29	N/A	09-Aug-2002 09:57
4.5.28	N/A	25-Jun-2002 02:07
4.5.25	Minor feature enhancements	16-Apr-2002 23:51

 Comments

[»] Download/Homepage URL
by Eli Sand - Jan 17th 2005 20:53:46

The current URL states it's accessible via HTTP however this doesn't seem to be working at the moment. You can access it via FTP though:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/

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[»] slowwwwwwww
by Apollyon - Apr 18th 2003 12:50:07

This client takes an insane amount of time to do whois
queries. I've tried 4.6.2 and 4.6.3. I'm wondering where I
find the 'normal' whois client that responds almost
immediately. Any ideas on how to fix this problem or where
to find the 'normal' whois client?

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[»] Re: slowwwwwwww
by Eli Sand - May 21st 2003 10:50:54


> This client takes an insane amount of
> time to do whois
> queries. I've tried 4.6.2 and 4.6.3. I'm
> wondering where I
> find the 'normal' whois client that
> responds almost
> immediately. Any ideas on how to fix
> this problem or where
> to find the 'normal' whois client?
I can only see it being slow if you're trying to do a whois on a domain that has a slow whois server. This whois program queries the proper whois servers (rather than you having to know them yourself) which makes it a bit slower, but it is about a million times better than the whois program you think you want.


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[»] Wouldn't be without it...
by Caniffe - Dec 5th 2001 20:14:19

This prog is an absolute lifesaver. I attempted to scan *.au host records for ages before I found this in 2000; kudos to the developer.

--
-C.

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[»] RedHat 7.1 package
by Dan Anderson - Jun 28th 2001 13:41:18

I built RedHat RPM packages for whois. Source and i386 binary packages are at: ftp://dan.drydog.com/pub/swhoisd/ or http://dan.drydog.com/swhoisd/

Also there is Swhoisd, Simple Whois Daemon.

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[»] This is a little gem
by Peter Burkholder - Aug 7th 2000 14:14:20

Since I daily try to contact the admins responsible for systems scanning our hosts, this little whois vastly simplifies my life.

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