Section 1: whois



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WHOIS(1)                 Debian GNU/Linux                WHOIS(1)


NAME

whois - client for the whois directory service

SYNOPSIS

whois [ -h HOST ] [ -p PORT ] [ -aCFLMmrRSV ] [ -g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST ] [ -i ATTR ] [ -S SOURCE ] [ -T TYPE ] object whois [ -t ] [ -v ] [ -i ] template

DESCRIPTION

whois 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

-h HOST Connect to HOST. -H Do not display the legal disclaimers some reg- istries like to show you. -p PORT Connect to PORT. -V Be verbose. Other options are flags understood by RIPE-like servers.

NOTES

Please 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). 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.

ENVIRONMENT

LANG When querying whois.nic.ad.jp english text is Marco d'Itri 3 December 1999 1 WHOIS(1) Debian GNU/Linux WHOIS(1) requested unless the LANG environment variable specifies a Japanese locale. WHOIS_SERVER This server will be queried if the program cannot guess where the object is located. If the variable does not exist then whois.internic.net will be queried. SEE ALSO RFC 812: NICNAME/WHOIS RIPE-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 com- mand: whois -h whois.ripe.net HELP

HISTORY

This 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 sup- port for the protocol extensions developed by David Kessens of QWest for the 6bone server.

AUTHOR

Whois and this man page were written by Marco d'Itri and are licensed under the GPL. Marco d'Itri 3 December 1999 2