Bug 16939

Summary: RFE: RIPE whois tools as alternative to fwhois
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Daniel Roesen <dr>
Component: whoisAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version: 7.0CC: mbaldessari, pekkas
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Description Daniel Roesen 2000-08-25 14:47:12 UTC
Please consider including RIPE's whois-tools (whois, networkupdate, 
cryptpw) into Red Hat 7.0 as it supports far more options than fwhois.

RPMs can be found here:

http://www.entire-systems.com/~droesen/ripe-whois-tools-2.4-1.i386.rpm
http://www.entire-systems.com/~droesen/ripe-whois-tools-2.4-1.src.rpm

Best regards,
Daniel

Comment 1 Daniel Roesen 2000-10-09 04:29:30 UTC
Moving to 7.0 release as no feedback received yet.

Comment 2 Daniel Roesen 2000-11-28 17:46:49 UTC
Still no comment yet. Are you not interested? Then please tell me...

Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-12-13 16:13:04 UTC
The additional options RIPE whois offers are only supported by whois servers
running the RIPE version of the whois server.  It may go into Power Tools at
some point.

Comment 5 Daniel Roesen 2000-12-13 16:49:51 UTC
Sure, but there is no problem with using this whois clients against NSI, ARIN,
APNIC or other whois servers so it can be a full replacement.

Comment 6 Pekka Savola 2001-01-17 18:46:03 UTC
This looks rather interesting:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/whois/


Comment 7 Daniel Roesen 2001-05-27 19:40:53 UTC
New URL:

http://www.swat.bofh.de/RPMS/7.1/ripe-whois-tools-2.4-3.src.rpm

Comment 8 Michele Baldessari 2002-04-30 11:31:13 UTC
I also think that including a more featureful whois client would be a great
idea. The one mentioned here :
http://freshmeat.net/projects/whois/

which points here :

http://www.linux.it/~md/software/

From the homepage :
whois supports all protocol extensions (RIPE, 6bone, CRSNIC) with the familiar
RIPE command line interface and IPv6 support. It also automagically queries the
right registry for all domains and most netblocks. 

Plus, it is well maintained.