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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