Whois or DNS lookup?

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Is there a simple little whois or DNS lookup utility for Mac? I have been searching, but unable to find such a thing.
 
WhatRoute does not work on my system. I like the terminal tip. Thanks. How do you do a whois for a site on another continent, like Asia or Africa? I noticed that the whois done by the terminal uses ARIN, which is just the Americas.
 
Guys it is built into OS X. Open /Applications/Utilties/Network Utility and check out what it can do.
 
The problem for me with Network Utility is that my DSL modem breaks traceroute unless I reconfigure the modem to bridge mode and control PPPoE via the NetWork preference panel. Actually the same problem occurs with traceroute from Terminal.

WhatRoute allows me to turn off "Use UDP Traceroute" and traceroute then works.

It's a small thing but I prefer to let the modem handle the PPPoE connection as things are right now, it's more standard.

I've been using WhatRoute for years, long before OSX, it's simple and quick. And for whois what can be quicker than a Terminal command?
 
Curiosity said:
How do you do a whois for a site on another continent, like Asia or Africa? I noticed that the whois done by the terminal uses ARIN, which is just the Americas.
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From the beginning of the man page (man whois). There's lots more.

The options are as follows:

-a Use the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) database.
It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world cov-
ered neither by APNIC nor by RIPE.

(Hint: All point of contact handles in the ARIN whois database
end with "-ARIN".)

-A Use the Asia/Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) database.
It contains network numbers used in East Asia, Australia, New
Zealand, and the Pacific islands.

-b Use the Network Abuse Clearinghouse database. It contains
addresses to which network abuse should be reported, indexed by
domain name.

-c country-code
This is the equivalent of using the -h option with an argument of
"country-code.whois-servers.net".

-d Use the US Department of Defense database. It contains points of
contact for subdomains of .MIL.
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