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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: whois

whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. We spotlight alternative tools to whois.

rdapper is a simple RDAP client. It uses Net::RDAP to retrieve data about internet resources. It’s written in Perl.

jwhois is an improved Whois client capable of selecting Whois server to query based on a flexible configuration file.

viddy is a modern watch command. It features in our Top 100 CLI apps. viddy is written in the Go programming language.

neowatch is a modern alternative to the watch command. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust language.

hwatch is a modern alternative to watch. It records the differences in execution results and can check the differences afterwards.

2ping is a bi-directional ping utility. It uses 3-way pings (akin to TCP SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK). Free and open source software.

echoping is a small program to test (approximately) performances of a remote host by sending it requests such as HTTP requests.

xping is a simple ping program continuously probing multiple hosts using ICMP-ECHO. It’s written in the C programming language.

ping3 is a pure python3 version of ICMP ping implementation using raw socket. It’s published under the MIT License.