[db-wg] WHOIS client(s) and Windows ?

I am currently working on a windows WHOIS client actually :)
I expect it to be ready in about a week (and yes it will be open source).

- Cynthia

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:34 AM Hank Nussbacher via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>
wrote:

> 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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