Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-28 Thread Stroller
On 27 March 2013, at 23:37, Michael Orlitzky wrote: ... Like Stroller I've been using net-misc/whois for ever and it does what I want, but don't know what the other packages may be able to do/do better. I would also be interested to find out why people prefer using these. They're all

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/28/2013 03:11 PM, Stroller wrote: The search I made before posting led me the wikipedia article which mentioned, for example, using thick and thin client models. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois#Thin_and_thick_lookups One might assume, for example, that a thin client might tend to

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 26 Mar 2013 18:57:18 Michael Mol wrote: On 03/26/2013 01:54 PM, Stroller wrote: Searching portage, I find there are quite a number of alternative whois clients. I think I have always used net-misc/whois in the past I now notice that a BSD whois is available, a generic and an

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/2013 06:08 AM, Mick wrote: Like Stroller I've been using net-misc/whois for ever and it does what I want, but don't know what the other packages may be able to do/do better. I would also be interested to find out why people prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-27 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
from eix, it says that jwhois can do recursive queries whatever that means. -Kevin On 03/27/2013 06:37 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 03/27/2013 06:08 AM, Mick wrote: Like Stroller I've been using net-misc/whois for ever and it does what I want, but don't know what the other packages may

[gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-26 Thread Stroller
Searching portage, I find there are quite a number of alternative whois clients. I think I have always used net-misc/whois in the past I now notice that a BSD whois is available, a generic and an advanced jwhois. Presumably there are some differences between the functionality provided by

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/26/2013 01:54 PM, Stroller wrote: Searching portage, I find there are quite a number of alternative whois clients. I think I have always used net-misc/whois in the past I now notice that a BSD whois is available, a generic and an advanced jwhois. Presumably there are some