Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:18:15 +0000

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.

teammatt3 — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:18:42 +0000

Quote: What about whois.sc are you tired of, other than it takes a while to load? That is what I usually use.

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 .

Quote: I guess you mean whois, not jwhois.

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.

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Seems like whois is just an alias for jwhois, but I don't know.

Greg K — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:07:53 +0000

What about whois.sc are you tired of, other than it takes a while to load? That is what I usually use.

-Greg

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:02:08 +0000

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.