> > > Would it be possible to have the whois program in NetBSD follow the SRS
> > > entry and query the relevant whois server?  I believe this used to happen
> > > a while ago,

jwhois in the packages collection (pkgsrc/net/jwhois) does the job.
 [whois.internic.net]
 [redirected to whois.corenic.net]

(It is from FSF; it is GPL'd.)

A lot smaller (245008 vs. 23276 for the tarball) implementation is at
http://www.linux.it/~md/software/. It is used with Debian. But it is also
GPL (but not mentioned in the binary or in the documentation, just in the
whois.c).

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/