On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:20:51 PM Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2011 15:06:50 joris dedieu wrote: > > Unlike Marco d'Itri's whois implementation that you will find in most > > linux distro, DragonFlyBSD's whois does not embed a list of prefixes > > distribution. So it will ask arin.net for every request on an ip. > > You may find several whois implementations on pkgsrc. As far as I know > > there is no BSD implementation of an elaborate whois as Marcos's one. > > I tried several and found that jwhois works well. It even handles the > two-netblock case, which I couldn't figure out on Linux whois. > > It does have a problem with my IPv6 address. I have to specify arin.net to > get info on that. I've sent a report to the bug email.
None of them are 100% accurate, because of proxy rerouting, but some are better than others - and free. Debian has both a free and non-free package in the repositories. Why not have a chat with the package maintainers there? It might be worth while having a chat with Jakob Appelbaum on the tor project, who is pretty au fait with all this, before making any final assessment, also. Regards, Weaver.
