Or not...

bash-2.04# which jwhois
/usr/pkg/bin/jwhois
bash-2.04# whois nelgin.nu

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

No match for "NELGIN.NU".


Regards
Nigel

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:54:41PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > > 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/

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