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jwhois - client for the whois service
SYNOPSIS
jwhois [ OPTIONS ]... [ QUERY ]
DESCRIPTION
jwhois searches Whois servers for the object on the command line.
The host to query is taken from a global configuration file, a configuration file specified on the command line, or selected directly on
the command line.
OPTIONS --version
display version, authors and licensing information.
--help display a short help text.
-c FILE --config=FILE
uses FILE as a configuration file instead of the default.
-h HOST --host=HOST
overrides any hosts in the configuration file and queries HOST directly.
-p PORT --port=PORT
specifies a port number to use when querying a HOST.
-f --force-lookup
forces a query to be made to a host even if a current object is available from the cache.
-v --verbose
outputs verbose debugging information while running (use this before sending a bugreport to ensure that it's indeed a bug and not a
misconfiguration). You can increase the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to jwhois, such as -vv.
-n --no-redirect
disable features that redirect queries from one server to another.
-s --no-whoisservers
disable the built-in support for whois-servers.net.
-a --raw
send query verbatim to receiving hosts instead of rewriting them according to the configuration.
-i --display-redirections
display every step in a redirection (default is to display only the last answer).
-d --disable-cache
completely disable both reading and writing to cache.
-r --rwhois
force the query to use the rwhois protocol instead of HTTP or whois.
--rwhois-display=DISPLAY
asks receiving rwhois servers to display the results in the DISPLAY display instead of the default dump display.
--rwhois-limit=LIMIT
asks receiving rwhois servers to limit their responses to LIMIT matches.
RIPE EXTENSIONS
To use the options specified in RIPE Document 157, you need to change the format of the query slightly. If you were to search for all
entries in the RIPE database which lists the admin-c, tech-c or zone-c as CO19-RIPE, you could use the following command syntax:
jwhois -h whois.ripe.net -- -i admin-c,tech-c,zone-c CO19-RIPE
-- is used to separate the RIPE options from the jwhois options.
SEE ALSO whois(1)GNU November 2001 jwhois(1)
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WHOIS(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHOIS(1)NAME
whois -- Internet domain name and network number directory service
SYNOPSIS
whois [-aAbfgiIklmPQrRS] [-c TLD | -h host] [-p port] [--] name ...
DESCRIPTION
The whois utility looks up records in the databases maintained by several Network Information Centers (NICs).
By default whois starts by querying the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) whois server, and follows referrals to whois servers that
have more specific details about the query name. The IANA whois server knows about IP address and AS numbers as well as domain names.
There are a few special cases where referrals do not work, so whois goes directly to the appropriate server. These include point-of-contact
handles for ARIN, nic.at, NORID, and RIPE, and domain names under ac.uk.
The options are as follows:
-a Use the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) database. It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world covered
neither by APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC, nor by RIPE. The query syntax is documented at
https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_api.html#nicname
-A Use the Asia/Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) database. It contains network numbers used in East Asia, Australia, New Zea-
land, and the Pacific islands. Get query syntax documentation using whois -A help
-b Use the Network Abuse Clearinghouse database. It contains addresses to which network abuse should be reported, indexed by domain
name.
-c TLD This is the equivalent of using the -h option with an argument of "TLD.whois-servers.net". This can be helpful for locating country-
class TLD whois servers.
-f Use the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) database. It contains network numbers used in Africa and the islands of the
western Indian Ocean. Get query syntax documentation using whois -f help
-g Use the US non-military federal government database, which contains points of contact for subdomains of .GOV.
-h host
Use the specified host instead of the default. Either a host name or an IP address may be specified.
-i Use the traditional Network Information Center (InterNIC) (whois.internic.net) database. This now contains only registrations for
domain names under .COM, .NET, .EDU. You can specify the type of object to search for like whois -i 'type name' where type can be
domain, nameserver, registrar. The name can contain * wildcards.
-I Use the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) database.
-k Use the National Internet Development Agency of Korea's (KRNIC) database. It contains network numbers and domain contact information
for Korea.
-l Use the Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry (LACNIC) database. It contains network numbers used in much of
Latin America and the Caribbean.
-m Use the Route Arbiter Database (RADB) database. It contains route policy specifications for a large number of operators' networks.
-p port
Connect to the whois server on port. If this option is not specified, whois defaults to port 43.
-P Use the PeeringDB database of AS numbers. It contains details about presence at internet peering points for many network operators.
-Q Do a quick lookup; whois will not attempt to follow referrals to other whois servers. This is the default if a server is explicitly
specified using one of the other options or in an environment variable. See also the -R option.
-r Use the R'eseaux IP Europ'eens (RIPE) database. It contains network numbers and domain contact information for Europe. Get query
syntax documentation using whois -r help
-R Do a recursive lookup; whois will attempt to follow referrals to other whois servers. This is the default if no server is explicitly
specified. See also the -Q option.
-S By default whois adjusts simple queries (without spaces) to produce more useful output from certain whois servers, and it suppresses
some uninformative output. With the -S option, whois sends the query and prints the output verbatim.
The operands specified to whois are treated independently and may be used as queries on different whois servers.
ENVIRONMENT
WHOIS_SERVER The primary default whois server. If this is unset, whois uses the RA_SERVER environment variable.
RA_SERVER The secondary default whois server. If this is unset, whois will use whois.iana.org.
EXIT STATUS
The whois utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
To obtain contact information about an administrator located in the Russian TLD domain "RU", use the -c option as shown in the following
example, where CONTACT-ID is substituted with the actual contact identifier.
whois -c RU CONTACT-ID
(Note: This example is specific to the TLD "RU", but other TLDs can be queried by using a similar syntax.)
The following example demonstrates how to query a whois server using a non-standard port, where ``query-data'' is the query to be sent to
``whois.example.com'' on port ``rwhois'' (written numerically as 4321).
whois -h whois.example.com -p rwhois query-data
Some whois servers support complex queries with dash-letter options. You can use the -- option to separate whois command options from whois
server query options. A query containing spaces must be quoted as one argument to the whois command. The following example asks the RIPE
whois server to return a brief description of its ``domain'' object type:
whois -r -- '-t domain'
SEE ALSO
Ken Harrenstien and Vic White, NICNAME/WHOIS, 1 March 1982, RFC 812.
HISTORY
The whois command appeared in 4.3BSD.
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