WHOIS client

Version: 
5.5.21
Release date: 
Monday, 30 March, 1998

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A new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs. It is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriate whois server for most queries.

This software is distributed in two modes:
  • as compressed package that you have to download and manually install; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too;
  • as RPM package; you can install it using your favorite rpm package manager, that will take care to download and install both the software and its prerequisites.
Choose the installation mode that you prefer. Please note that not all the versions are available in both the installation modes.

Installation with rpm

This program is installable using the rpm package manager. See below for the install string. Required prerequisites are automatically processed by the package manager and, if needed, downloaded and installed.

whois-5.5.21-1.oc00 (25/02/2024)
Repository: Netlabs stable
whois (5.5.21) unstable; urgency=medium * Updated the .cv and .sd TLD servers. * Remove 4 new gTLDs which are no longer active. -- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:22:22 +0100 whois (5.5.20) unstable; urgency=medium * Added the .gn TLD server. * Removed 6 new gTLDs which are no longer active. * Enabled getopt_long(3) support on Solaris. -- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:26:02 +0100
whois-debuginfo-5.5.21-1.oc00
Repository: Netlabs stable

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd emxrt

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

WHOIS client v. 5.2.15 (1/3/2017, Marco d'Itri) Readme/What's new
whois (5.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium * Updated the .ar, .bm and .fm TLD servers. * Updated the Afilias hiding string to fix hiding for the new .bm server. -- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> Thu, 29 Dec 2016 23:12:19 +0100
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/whois-5.2.15.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.7.30 (17/1/2009, Ian Manners) Readme/What's new
This is whois v4.7.30 for OS/2. Compiled with gcc-3.3.5csd3 for OS/2 so you will need the GCC runtime lib(s) in your DPATH somewere. Most people will already have the latest GCC runtime installed. If you want to compile whois yourself. ====================================== Whois compiles with only minimal changes, ie edit makefile and uncomment the lines #whois_LDADD += -lsocket #LDFLAGS += -Zexe -Dstrncasecmp=strnicmp under 'OS/2 EMX'. config.diff provided by Steven Levine for turning on NLS support and long option support. Using Whois =========== The only file you need to use whois is the exe file in your path somewere. If you want to use a different or new whois server than the ones compiled in the executable, you will also require whois.conf in which you can add any additional whois server information. Why have I compiled a new version ? The older OS/2 version was baffing on IP ranges which have since been released from the bogon list. Primarily addition ranges have been released to Asia and Australia. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site.com/ =-=-=-=
 hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/misc/whois-4.7.30-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.7.28 (2/10/2008, Ian Manners) Readme/What's new
This is whois v4.7.28 for OS/2. Compiled with gcc-3.3.5csd3 for OS/2 so you will need the GCC runtime lib(s) in your DPATH somewere. Most people will already have the latest GCC runtime installed. If you want to compile whois yourself. ====================================== Whois compiles with only minimal changes, ie edit makefile and uncomment the lines #whois_LDADD += -lsocket #LDFLAGS += -Zexe -Dstrncasecmp=strnicmp under 'OS/2 EMX'. config.diff provided by Steven Levine for turning on NLS support and long option support. Also thank you to everyone that pointed out the above omissions, dont think I would have ever noticed myself :o) Using Whois =========== The only file you need to use whois is the exe file in your path somewere. If you want to use a different or new whois server than the ones compiled in the executable, you will also require whois.conf in which you can add any additional whois server information. Why have I compiled a new version ? The older OS/2 version was baffing on IP ranges which have since been released from the bogon list. Primarily addition ranges have been released to Asia and Australia. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site.com/ =-=-=-=
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.7.28-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.7.24 (19/1/2008, Ian Manners) Readme/What's new
This is whois v4.7.24 for OS/2. Compiled with gcc-3.3.5csd3 for OS/2 so you will need the GCC runtime lib(s) in your DPATH somewere. Most people will already have the latest GCC runtime installed. If you want to compile whois yourself. ====================================== Whois compiles with only minimal changes, ie edit makefile and uncomment the line for LDFLAGS under 'OS/2 EMX'. config.diff provided by Steven Levine for turning on NLS support and long option support. Also thank you to everyone that pointed out the above omissions, dont think I would have ever noticed myself :o) Using Whois =========== The only file you need to use whois is the exe file in your path somewere. If you want to use a different or new whois server than the ones compiled in the executable, you will also require whois.conf in which you can add any additional whois server information. Why have I compiled a new version ? The older OS/2 version was baffing on IP ranges which have since been released from the bogon list. Primarily addition ranges have been released to Asia and Australia. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site.com/ =-=-=-=
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.7.24-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.7.23 (15/10/2007, Ian Manners) Readme/What's new
This is whois v4.7.23 for OS/2. Compiled with gcc-3.3.5csd3 for OS/2 so you will need the GCC runtime lib(s) in your DPATH somewere. Most people will already have the latest GCC runtime installed. The only file you need to use whois is the exe file in your path somewere. If you want to use a different or new whois server than the ones compiled in the executable, you will also require whois.conf in which you can add any additional whois server information. Why have I compiled a new version ? The older OS/2 version was baffing on IP ranges which have since been released from the bogon list. Primarily addition ranges have been released to Asia and Australia. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site.com/
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.7.23.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.6.6 (30/7/2003, Paul Hartman) Readme/What's new
Here is latest version of Marco d'Itri's great WHOIS tool. It was compiled by emx + Andy Zabolotny's gcc 3.2.2 port. Sources are included in the original unmodified archive! Paul Hartman <xyzyx@inbox.lv>
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.6.6-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.6.1 (2/1/2003, Paul Hartman) Readme/What's new
Here is latest version of Marco d'Itri's great WHOIS tool. It was compiled by emx + Andy Zabolotny's gcc 3.0.3 port. Sources are included in the original unmodified archive! Paul Hartman <xyzyx@inbox.lv>
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.6.1-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.5.33 (23/11/2002, Paul Hartman) Readme/What's new
Here is latest version of Marco d'Itri's great WHOIS tool. It was compiled by emx + Andy Zabolotny's gcc 3.0.3 port. Sources are included in the original unmodified archive! Paul Hartman <xyzyx@inbox.lv>
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.5.33-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.5.31 (9/11/2002, Paul Hartman) Readme/What's new
Here is latest version of Marco d'Itri's great WHOIS tool. It was compiled by emx + Andy Zabolotny's gcc 3.0.3 port. No changes were made to source, just some #define's at compile time. Sources are included in the original unmodified archive! Paul Hartman <xyzyx@inbox.lv>
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.5.31-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.5.21 (14/3/2002, Paul Hartman) Readme/What's new
Here is latest version of Marco d'Itri's great WHOIS tool. It was compiled by emx + Andy Zabolotny's gcc 3.0.3 port. No changes were made to source, thanks to gracious inclusion of past changes by the programs author. Original sources are included in their original unmodified archive! Paul Hartman <biz@arabia.com>
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.5.21-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 4.5.12 (27/10/2001, Paul Hartman) Readme/What's new
This is an OS/2 compile of Marco d'Itri's great WHOIS tool from the linux world. No code changes were needed, only a minor change to makefile & adding a #define for a function who exists on OS/2-emx by another name (strncasecmp)... Original source archive has been included. My (miniscule) changes are in the file os2.diff Paul Hartman <biz@arabia.com>
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois-4.5.12-os2.zip
WHOIS client v. 20000726 (26/7/2000, Alexander Mai) Readme/What's new
OS/2 port of Richard J. Sexton's kinder, gentler whois Here's the OS/2 version from the whois client which is supplied on http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone/ I found the port of bjorn@mork.no on the net and decided to make an update which features the updated source and local databse file "whohostst.txt". This whois client will automatically select the correct server for your query. No more need to specify '-h whois.ripe.net' on the commandline. Requires EMX runtime v0.9d Installation: copy whohosts.txt to %ETC%. Alexander Mai st002279@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois.zip
WHOIS client v. 1.2 (30/3/1998, Tom Fotherby (Dink)) Readme/What's new
whois v1.2 : by dink (http://ozbbs.ml.org/dink) - info - whois client for os/2 warp or merlin. functions identical to the unix version. usage: whois [-h nameserver host] name - whats new? - misc code optimizations
 www.os2site.com/sw/internet/util/old/whois12.zip
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