Maintainer of WHOIS command

[Julien Gabel]

> Who is the FreeBSD Maintainer of WHOIS command?

 $ ident /usr/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c
or
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c
... might give you an idea of who are commiting to this utility.

> Does anybody know if there is some official organization that
> maintains the unix whois command? Can I get an copy of the newer
> whois command to use on my Freebsd 4.9 system?

There exists other clients of this type in the ports collection:
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=whois&stype=name

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