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Asked: 2026-06-06T03:32:36+00:00

I have downloaded nmap. As far as I know, it supports the ‘whois’ tool.

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I have downloaded nmap. As far as I know, it supports the ‘whois’ tool. When I try to type the following: whois yahoo.com (as example). I got the following error:
‘whois’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Can anyone tell me what I’m missing? Do I need to install something other than nmap itself?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For me, this tool isn’t part of nmap

    blender ~ $ pacman -Qo `which whois`
/usr/bin/whois is owned by whois 5.0.16-1

    And in fact, nmap doesn’t supply much more than nmap and some its own binaries:

    blender ~ $ pacman -Ql nmap | grep "bin"
nmap /usr/bin/
nmap /usr/bin/ncat
nmap /usr/bin/ndiff
nmap /usr/bin/nmap
nmap /usr/bin/nmapfe
nmap /usr/bin/nping
nmap /usr/bin/xnmap
nmap /usr/bin/zenmap

    Check if there is a whois package for your distro.

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