[PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

[Philip Prindeville]

I liked the idea of including whois.

I think it should be one of those things that gets enabled if we’re not doing a super-skinny-build.

And if I’m at a remote location and OpenWRT isn’t coming up enough for me to run “whois” on a laptop behind it, then having it on OpenWRT itself makes it that much more self-contained.



> On Nov 18, 2020, at 12:22 AM, Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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