How to install whois on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

To install the whois command on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8, you can use the package manager dnf:

sudo dnf install whois

This will install the whois package, which provides the whois command-line tool for querying domain name registration information. Once installed, you can use the whois command to look up information about a domain or IP address.

For example, to look up information about example.com, you would run:

whois example.com

After installing it you can also use whois command to lookup IP addresses or ASNs to get more information about the entity that owns them.

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