The version in portage does not query the german denic servers correct anymore. I will attach a small patch to correct that issue. It was original written by "Robert Scheck <redhat@linuxnetz.de>" and I found it here: http://www.filewatcher.com/p/jwhois-3.2.2-5.src.rpm.390993/jwhois-3.2.2-denic.patch.html
Created attachment 105234 [details, diff] denic fix patch
this has been fixed upstream already ...
in which version? I just checked a gnu mirror, and there is only Version 3.2.3 avaible (the version in portage), and this archive does not contain the fix?!
i meant their cvs tree added patch to 3.2.3-r1 ... thanks for the report !