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BW whois - Whois client with both command line and Web interfaces

BW whois is a whois client that works as a command line tool or as a Web application. It includes configurable with self-detecting CGI support, multiple security options in the CGI mode, a mature TLD table, database caching (using MySQL), and many more options and features.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://whois.bw.org/
Source tarballhttp://whois.bw.org/dist/whois-current.tgz
Latest versionhttp://whois.bw.org/dist/whois-current.tgz
Version 3.4 (stable) released on 2003-01-27
Version 4.0-beta-1 (beta) released on 2003-08-01
Licensed under Perl.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpage available in Text, Pod, and Man formats from http://whois.bw.org/dist/current/
Support contacts

Help Listhttp://bw.org/contact/
Developer Listhttp://bw.org/contact/
Bug Listhttp://bw.org/contact/

Project contacts

Maintainers
  • Bill Weinman (http://bw.org/contact/)
Developers
  • Bill Weinman (http://bw.org/contact/)

Related information

Interfacescommand line, web
Source languagesPerl
Use requirementsPerl 5.6
Weak prerequisitesMySQL and DBI (for cahcing and other database functionality)
Related programsWhois, jwhois

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-07-29
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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