gwhois(1)

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version 20120626.0 · 2 versions
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💖 gwhois(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to gwhois, section 1 of the User Manuals (yes it's a Linux girlie, dated 19 Jan 2002, we love a vintage icon ✨). She's a generic whois client and server, and she's lowkey the friend who always knows who to call. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

gwhois — generic whois client / server 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gwhois <query>

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one query, no drama 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so gwhois is a generic whois client, and her whole personality is striving to know, for all existing tlds and all ip address ranges, the appropriate whois server to ask. like. she did the homework. no cap 📚✨

you literally just call gwhois with a query for some domain or some ip and she will ask the right server for you. that's it. that's the magic. main character energy fr fr 👑

and the way that she can even query webforms?? which are unfortunately the only query type supported by many bad registries 😭 like those registries really said "no api for u" and gwhois said "bet" 💀

but wait, there's more — gwhois can also be used as a whois server 🎀 you can call it from the inetd and make it accessable via a normal standard whois client. this allows for example using a windows client and still make use of the enhanced features of gwhois. iconic behaviour honestly 🌈

yes she's serving both sides of the client/server situation. she contains multitudes. we stan a dual-threat queen 💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/gwhois/pattern — the pattern file of gwhois 💫 it contains the list of domain and ip to server mappings. it is in a machine readable regexp format but should be easy to understand by humans, too (she's bilingual bestie, regexp and people 🧚). if you have additions and corrections please report them always to the authors! 🙈
  • /etc/gwhois/debconf.inc — file created depending on debconf question sending mail 📬 please do not change manually but instead use dpkg-reconfigure! hands off the file, use the tool, i'm literally begging 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Juliane Holzt <debian@julijane.de> — the legend herself 🌟

⭐ VERSION ⭐

20100515 — yes she's an elder but she still ate 💅

and that's the whole page bestie!! remember: User Manuals, Linux, 19 Jan 2002, gwhois(1) — the classic combo, no notes 💖🦋✨

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