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Packages Collection. This is a complete rewrite of the RIPE whois client: - The networkupdate utility is gone (it was restricted to internal RIPE NCC nodes anyway). - The cryptpw utility is also gone (it was not of real use for non-RIPE NCC users anyway). - The default command name is now whois3. - The whois3 client does not check for supported flags at the client side, except for -h (whois host) and -p (whois port). The syntax checks for flags are made at the server side. This package is believed to be the successor of net/ripe-whois-tools which could problably be removed.
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This is whois3, a very simple and generic whois client.
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This client, unlike the "classic" whois client,
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does not check for supported flags at the client side,
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except for -h (whois host) and -p (whois port).
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The syntax checks for flags are made at the server side.
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The default host and port of whois3 is whois.ripe.net
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at port 43 (or to be more exact, the tcp port specified
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for whois in /etc/services).
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Try whois3 help.
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