I am currently working on a windows WHOIS client actually :) I expect it to be ready in about a week (and yes it will be open source).
- Cynthia On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:34 AM Hank Nussbacher via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/07/2019 05:19, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote: > > I myself am an old school die hard UNIX guy from way back, but recently > > I have been wanting to shared certain information relating to certain > > WHOIS records with some other folks, some of whom are strictly and > > only Windows users. > > > > Are there any WHOIS clients available for Windows that provide the > > full range of RIPE WHOIS options? If not why not? (Sad as it may > > be, Windows is still used by about 90% of everybody, so it seems > > odd that WHOIS clients are only built for UNIX and UNIX-like systems.) > > I continue to use Cyberkit 2.5 from 2001 which allows me the full range > of whois options. > > I would love to hear of something more up to date to replace it. > > -Hank > > > > > > > Has anyone ever tried to build the RIPE WHOIS client, from sources, > > on Windows? If so, what was the result? > > > > I have been telling my Windows-only friends to try to get WHOIS info > > from, for example, whois.ripe.net, by just using telnet and connecting > > to port 43 and then typing in their options and search keys, but as > > I have learned, the results in that case are entirely sub-optimal. > > > > If you do this, you will get a "stairstep" set of output lines, > apparently > > because the output of whois.ripe.net, like most other WHOIS servers, > > assumes that ends-of-lines should be represented by just <LF> and not > > by the <CR><LF> sequence that is formally required for most other > > protocols. (The latter is fine for UNIX and UNIX-like systems, while > > the former is generally needed for Windows systems.) > > > > The original RFCs covering WHOIS (RFC 812 and RFC 954) were rather > > entirely ambiguous about how response lines should be terminated, > > however the newer RFC 3912, Section 3, strongly hints that response > > lines should be terminated with <CR><LF> even though it fails to ever > > come out and say that explicitly. > > > > So, is the whois.ripe.net WHOIS server failing to be standard confoming? > > > > Regardless of whether it is or isn't I really do need a WHOIS client > > that I can give to my various Windows-only friends. > > > > Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > > > Regards, > > rfg > > > > >
