Marco d'Itri's whois client does quite a lot of what you want, including automatically following an rwhois referral when it finds one Of course not much can be done when the rwhois server to which you're redirected just doesn't respond suresh@etherkiller 11:33:29 <~> $ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 Trying 209.244.1.179... srs On 09/09/05, Albert Meyer <from_nanog@corenap.com> wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied on and off-list. I'm concluding that there is a problem with WHOIS server output, caused mostly by a lack of standards, but people with more influence than me are already working on fixing that. In the meantime I'll see if I talk to the gnu maintainer about making jwhois more rwhois-friendly.
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