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Manpages WHOISSection: Debian GNU/Linux (1)Updated: 3 December 1999 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEwhois - client for the whois directory serviceSYNOPSISwhois [~-h~HOST~] [~-p~ PORT~] [~-aCFHlLMmrRSVx~] [~-g~SOURCE:FIRST-LAST~] [~-i~ATTR~] [~-S~SOURCE~] [~-T~TYPE~] objectwhois [~-t~] [~-v~] template whois [~-q~] keyword DESCRIPTIONwhois searches for an object in a RFC-812 database.This version of the whois client tries to guess the right server to ask for the specified object. If no guess can be made it will connect to whois.internic.net for domains, whois.arin.net for IPv4 addresses and whois.6bone.net for IPv6 addresses. OPTIONS
NOTESPlease remember that whois.networksolutions.com by default will only search in the domains database. If you want to search for hostnames, NIC handles or people names you have to prepend the appropriate keyword (HOst, HAndle or NAme). If the ! character is prepended to a NIC handle, the default server becomes whois.networksolutions.com. When querying whois.arin.net for AS numbers, the program will automatically convert the request in the appropriate format, inserting a space after the string "AS". When querying whois.ncst.ernet.in for a string without spaces, the domain keyword is prepended. When querying whois.corenic.net, machine readable output is requested. RIPE-specific options are ignored when querying non-RIPE servers.Files/etc/whois.confENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSORFC 812: NICNAME/WHOISRIPE-157, RIPE-189: RIPE NCC Database Documentation Detailed help on available flags can be found in RIPE-157 or in the help file which can be obtained with the command:
HISTORYThis program closely tracks the user interface of the whois client developed at RIPE by Ambrose Magee and others on the base of the original BSD client. I also added support for the protocol extensions developed by David Kessens of QWest for the 6bone server.AUTHORWhois and this man page were written by Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> and are licensed under the GPL.
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