On Tue Nov 17, 2020 at 9:22 PM HST, Josef Schlehofer 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.
OpenWrt has a taste for storage constrained devices, so whatever increases the default size by multiple kB is evaluated in depth. In this case it's easily installed via `opkg`. > 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. I ported the suggested whois package to OpenWrt[2], it has more features and doesn't take up any extra space for the default case. [2]: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/13944 Sunshine, Paul > > [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
