In 1999 I wrote this Whois client from scratch because the alternativeswere obsolete or bloated.This client is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriatewhois server for most queries.The internal database is often more accurate than IANA's published one,but please send me any information you have regarding domains and networkresources which are not correctly handled by the program.Because of historical reasons this package also contains the mkpasswdprogram, which can be used to encrypt a password with crypt(3).The canonical distribution point for releases of the program ishttps://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/ .Useful information sources:-https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/current-ripe-documents/ripe-database-documents-https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/-https://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-https://www.aftld.org/Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>