whois 5.5.17

Intelligent client for the WHOIS directory service

whois searches for an object in a WHOIS (RFC 3912) database. It is commonly used to look up the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. It can automatically select the appropriate server for most queries.

For historical reasons, this package also includes mkpasswd, which encrypts passwords using crypt(3) and is unrelated to the Expect command of the same name.

Website: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois
Licenses: GPL 2+
Package source: gnu/packages/networking.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install whois 5.5.17 as follows:

guix install whois@5.5.17

Or install the latest version:

guix install whois

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.