I liked the idea of including whois. I think it should be one of those things that gets enabled if we’re not doing a super-skinny-build.
And if I’m at a remote location and OpenWRT isn’t coming up enough for me to run “whois” on a laptop behind it, then having it on OpenWRT itself makes it that much more self-contained. > On Nov 18, 2020, at 12:22 AM, Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schleho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Thank you for your feedback. > I was surprised how fast this was rejected and I thought that there is > going to be some vote or discussion about it. My bad. > > I noticed that on OpenWrt forum, there are some requests like this [1] > to have whois present on their routers. We can be thinking about which > tools are essentials to you and which are you using. On the other hand, > why we should be using whois on a mobile phone or on websites. Because > in my opinion, It's all just a matter of taste. > > For now, I am satisfied with enabled whois in busybox and as I was doing > compile and run tests. I thought that it was a nice idea to share it > with you. > > Anyway, there isn't anything wrong with that! At least we have it > documented on the mailing list, so we can refer to it in the future. > > [1] > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/whois-binary-cannot-find-providing-package/31274 > > Regards, > > Josef > > > On 17. 11. 20 21:18, Paul Spooren wrote: >> On Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 9:14 PM HST, Petr Štetiar wrote: >>> Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schleho...@gmail.com> [2020-11-17 02:07:09]: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>>> Whois can identify who owns a domain and how to get reach owner. Providing >>>> this tool in OpenWrt someone does not need to use websites for everything. >>> I don't think, that this tool is essential enough to be shipped by >>> default. >> I agree. >> >>> One can use whois on desktop or mobile phone for example. I think, that >>> packaging whois[1] shouldn't be that hard, then you've it one `opkg >>> install` >>> away. >>> >>> 1. https://github.com/rfc1036/whois >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Petr >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openwrt-devel mailing list >>> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >>> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
