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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:33:29 <~> $ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 Trying 209.244.1.179... srs On 09/09/05, Albert Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
