[PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

[Josef Schlehofer]

Hi guys,

Thank you for your feedback.
I was surprised how fast this was rejected and I thought that there is
going to be some vote or discussion about it. My bad.

I noticed that on OpenWrt forum, there are some requests like this [1]
to have whois present on their routers. We can be thinking about which
tools are essentials to you and which are you using. On the other hand,
why we should be using whois on a mobile phone or on websites. Because
in my opinion, It's all just a matter of taste.

For now, I am satisfied with enabled whois in busybox and as I was doing
compile and run tests. I thought that it was a nice idea to share it
with you.

Anyway, there isn't anything wrong with that! At least we have it
documented on the mailing list, so we can refer to it in the future.

[1]
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/whois-binary-cannot-find-providing-package/31274

Regards,

Josef


On 17. 11. 20 21:18, Paul Spooren wrote:
> On Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 9:14 PM HST, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>> Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer at gmail.com> [2020-11-17 02:07:09]:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Whois can identify who owns a domain and how to get reach owner.  Providing
>>> this tool in OpenWrt someone does not need to use websites for everything.
>> I don't think, that this tool is essential enough to be shipped by
>> default.
> I agree.
>
>> One can use whois on desktop or mobile phone for example. I think, that
>> packaging whois[1] shouldn't be that hard, then you've it one `opkg
>> install`
>> away.
>>
>> 1. https://github.com/rfc1036/whois
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Petr
>>
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