Re: Looking for W7 whois freeware

[Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal () dataix net>]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 08:19:42AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> At 16:57 10/05/2012 -0400, Scott Berkman wrote:
>
> I am looking for a simple Windows GUI s/w for a secretary to use to do 
> whois lookups for IP and ASNs and to easily copy/paste the 
> results.  Amazing that there is no such beast.

Use your internal company webserver and write a simple CGI form that she
can fill out and hit enter. This way you can simply control the results
if you ever find out that you are not getting what you want.

You could have that CGI also email out the results to her mailbox and
yours just so you can keep an eye on it.

> > I use Launchy (a keystroke launcher similar to GnomeDo, Quicksilver, etc)
> > and it's Runner plugin with some bat scripts that reference the builtin
> > whois DOS/CLI command to create my own.
> >
> > So for example, to look up an IP at ARIN I just hit my hotkey (Atl-Space)
> > and type arin <tab> <IP> enter.  My bat script really just runs whois, sizes
> > the command prompt window, and waits for user input before disappearing.
> >
> > I'm happy to share my scripts off list if you are interested.
> >
> >         -Scott
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank () efes iucc ac il]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:49 AM
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Looking for W7 whois freeware
> >
> > I am looking for a Window 7 GUI utility that does raw whois - not the
> > standard domain lookup, but rather allows me to specify and change the whois
> > server I am talking to and allows me to customize the whois search string
> > for IPs or ASNs or anything else a whois server will accept, like:
> > "-B -G as378".
> >
> > I know of ezwhois but am looking for something better (for example - they
> > don't have whois.ripe.net listed - one can add it but not save it).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hank

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