On Tuesday 26 Mar 2013 18:57:18 Michael Mol wrote: > 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.
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. -- Regards, Mick
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