RE: Looking for W7 whois freeware

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

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.

-Hank

> 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