[152728] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for W7 whois freeware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sun May 13 01:20:24 2012
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 08:19:42 +0300
To: "Scott Berkman" <scott@sberkman.net>,<nanog@nanog.org>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <0c6501cd2eef$77cbf890$6763e9b0$@sberkman.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
