Whois from the command line
Did you know you can do a whois from the command line in linux (or at least Fedora)?
jwhois webmaster-forums.netThought I'd share that
Thought I'd share that
Did you know you can do a whois from the command line in linux (or at least Fedora)?
jwhois webmaster-forums.net
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 03:02 — 31st August 2007.
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I guess you mean [incode]whois[/incode], not [incode]jwhois[/incode].
It's a handy utility. A lot of people forget or don't realise it's there -- it was a good idea to post about it.
I think it's available on most distros, too.
Greg K posted this at 06:07 — 31st August 2007.
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What about whois.sc are you tired of, other than it takes a while to load? That is what I usually use.
-Greg
teammatt3 posted this at 18:18 — 31st August 2007.
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When you take out the loading part, I don't really have a problem with it
. I think it has gotten significantly slower over the past couple months. It's really annoying to me. And they limit how many you can do a day, which is annoying too 
.
When I do a man on whois, I get
jwhois(1) jwhois(1)
NAME
jwhois - client for the whois service
SYNOPSIS
jwhois [ OPTIONS ]... [ QUERY ]
DESCRIPTION
jwhois searches Whois servers for the object on the command line.
The host to query is taken from a global configuration file, a configu-
ration file specified on the command line, or selected directly on the
command line.
Seems like whois is just an alias for jwhois, but I don't know.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 04:18 — 1st September 2007.
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Oh right. That's another whois client I wasn't aware of. In addition to jwhois, there's whois3, whois, gwhois and more. Most packages link [incode]whois[/incode] to their own program, as that's more portable.
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