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Hank Nussbacher
hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Sun Jul 28 07:34:01 CEST 2019
On 28/07/2019 05:19, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote: > I myself am an old school die hard UNIX guy from way back, but recently > I have been wanting to shared certain information relating to certain > WHOIS records with some other folks, some of whom are strictly and > only Windows users. > > Are there any WHOIS clients available for Windows that provide the > full range of RIPE WHOIS options? If not why not? (Sad as it may > be, Windows is still used by about 90% of everybody, so it seems > odd that WHOIS clients are only built for UNIX and UNIX-like systems.) I continue to use Cyberkit 2.5 from 2001 which allows me the full range of whois options. I would love to hear of something more up to date to replace it. -Hank > > Has anyone ever tried to build the RIPE WHOIS client, from sources, > on Windows? If so, what was the result? > > I have been telling my Windows-only friends to try to get WHOIS info > from, for example, whois.ripe.net, by just using telnet and connecting > to port 43 and then typing in their options and search keys, but as > I have learned, the results in that case are entirely sub-optimal. > > If you do this, you will get a "stairstep" set of output lines, apparently > because the output of whois.ripe.net, like most other WHOIS servers, > assumes that ends-of-lines should be represented by just <LF> and not > by the <CR><LF> sequence that is formally required for most other > protocols. (The latter is fine for UNIX and UNIX-like systems, while > the former is generally needed for Windows systems.) > > The original RFCs covering WHOIS (RFC 812 and RFC 954) were rather > entirely ambiguous about how response lines should be terminated, > however the newer RFC 3912, Section 3, strongly hints that response > lines should be terminated with <CR><LF> even though it fails to ever > come out and say that explicitly. > > So, is the whois.ripe.net WHOIS server failing to be standard confoming? > > Regardless of whether it is or isn't I really do need a WHOIS client > that I can give to my various Windows-only friends. > > Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. > > > Regards, > rfg >
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