Re: [PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

2020-11-18 Thread Paul Spooren
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

Re: [PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

2020-11-17 Thread Philip Prindeville
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 tha

Re: [PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

2020-11-17 Thread Josef Schlehofer
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 abou

Re: [PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

2020-11-17 Thread Paul Spooren
On Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 9:14 PM HST, Petr Štetiar wrote: > Josef Schlehofer [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 to

Re: [PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

2020-11-16 Thread Petr Štetiar
Josef Schlehofer [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. One can use whois on

[PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

2020-11-16 Thread Josef Schlehofer
Some users of OpenWrt would like to use whois on their routers without re-compiling whole busybox. It means that they need to know how to cross-compile things for OpenWrt, enable it, compile busybox and flash it on the router. That's can be difficult as force reinstall of busybox can leads to some