Source: gwhois Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Juliane Holzt Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), po-debconf Standards-Version: 3.9.3 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. . 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.