Package: gwhois
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debconf | debconf-2.0, perl, libwww-perl, lynx, curl, libnet-libidn-perl
Suggests: openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver
Description: generic Whois Client / Server
gwhois is a generic whois client / server. This means that it know
for many (virtually all) TLDs, IP-Ranges and Handles out there where
to ask. It queries other whois-servers as well as web-lookup forms.
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gwhois can be used as a client, but you can invoke it as a server
(e.g. via inetd) as well for usage with a normal whois client.
Available as official package in Debian, Gentoo and other Linux distributions
Currently not (really) maintained, WHOIS is dieing anyway.