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
Moving to 7.0 release as no feedback received yet.
Still no comment yet. Are you not interested? Then please tell me...
Update: the file is now: http://www.entire-systems.com/~droesen/ripe-whois-tools-2.4-2.i386.rpm http://www.entire-systems.com/~droesen/ripe-whois-tools-2.4-2.src.rpm
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.
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.
This looks rather interesting: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whois/
New URL: http://www.swat.bofh.de/RPMS/7.1/ripe-whois-tools-2.4-3.src.rpm
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.