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elceef / dnstwist

Domain name permutation engine for detecting homograph phishing attacks, typo squatting, and brand impersonation
https://dnstwist.it
Apache License 2.0
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WHOIS #105

Closed smit19 closed 4 years ago

smit19 commented 4 years ago

WHOIS not working with command

elceef commented 4 years ago

Please provide more details including console output.

ddpbsd commented 4 years ago

I don't know what issue @smit19 was experiencing, but I just spent some time troubleshooting the whois support for an installation. The first issue I had was there was no whois binary. The python module runs the whois application and parses the output. My fault for not reading the docs. I installed the whois package. That didn't solve the problem though. In the end it turned out the whois package on Centos 7 was returning 1, so it appeared to be failing. Installing jwhois cleared up the issue though. Is there a switch in dnstwist that would have allowed me to know that whois was failing?

elceef commented 4 years ago

The latest release brought --debug switch. Hopefully this should help resolve similar issues quicker.