[ILUG] Smarter whois

[David Murphy]

Quoting <20000413112744.G12691 at iulus.wunsch.org>
by Scott Wunsch <scott at wunsch.org>:

> On Thu, 13-Apr-2000 at 13:47:17 +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> 
> > ISTR a new whois package that automatically chases the
> > referrals from the whois.internic.net to the whois 
> > server of the relevant registrar (and maybe even knows
> > about which whois servers are best for which TLDs).
> 
> Geektools.com has a whois proxy that can do this sort of thing.  I just
> patched my whois program to query whois.geektools.com by default, and it
> works great.
> 
> If you don't feel like patching it yourself, I can send you a patched
> version (or a patched RPM, for that matter)...

Me, I just use the following:
alias whozat="whois -h whois.geektools.com $*"

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