No whois Out-of-the-Box in Windows 10
by frankbell from LinuxQuestions.org on (#531QE)
My girl friend got an email that looked questionable today. (She is very good at sniffing out dubious emails and websites.)
So I took a look at it on her Win10 computer. I opened the Windows command prompt and tried to run a whois and a tracert and the terminal returned the Win10 version of "unknown command."
Then I opened powershell (I was not impressed) and got the same result. A web search informed me that, if I want "whois" on Win10, I could download a package from Microsoft, unzip it, and have the commands.
I just checked in my Win8 VM--also no whois.
My Win7 machine died in a power surge from a nearby lightning strike, so I can't check back that far.
Frankly, I'm somewhat taken aback.
So I took a look at it on her Win10 computer. I opened the Windows command prompt and tried to run a whois and a tracert and the terminal returned the Win10 version of "unknown command."
Then I opened powershell (I was not impressed) and got the same result. A web search informed me that, if I want "whois" on Win10, I could download a package from Microsoft, unzip it, and have the commands.
I just checked in my Win8 VM--also no whois.
My Win7 machine died in a power surge from a nearby lightning strike, so I can't check back that far.
Frankly, I'm somewhat taken aback.