> > Have you tried jwhois?
>
> Oh, for Pete's sake. Lynn was (pretty clearly) trying to point out
> that the programming required to build your OWN tool is essentially
> trivial, and if you build your own, then the only person you must rely
> on for it to be up-to-date is yourself...someone who you might
> reasonably be expected to have more control over than, oh, I don't
> know, ANYBODY ELSE.
>
> The "Have you tried Brand X?" type of questions completely ignore the
> point that Lynn was making.
>
True. However, not everyone has the time/skill-set/desire to maintain
a tool like this. In fact, I bet the reason that there are dozens of
solutions to this problem is because someone, at some point, said "hey,
I can just maintain this myself." How many of those people are going
to tire as well? And who's to say the original poster won't either?
Anyway, this is kinda off-topic now. Yes, there are many tools to do
this. I was going to suggest jwhois as well, until I noticed someone
else had. And it's a FSF project. Chances are it will be well
maintained. And if it isn't ... you've got the source code. :)
- Colin
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