whois(1) Unsupported whois(1)Name
whois - DARPA Internet user name directory service
Syntax
whois [ -h servername ] name
Description
The command allows you to look up people, hosts, and organizations in the database kept by the Network Information Center (NIC) at SRI
International. The name can be the last name of a registered user, or the name of a registered Internet host, or other things recognized
by the whois server. Not all users, and only a few Internet hosts, are registered with the NIC. If the name argument contains white space
or other special characters, you must surround it with double quote (") marks to prevent its interpretation by the shell.
The WHOIS server at the NIC will provide more information on doing complex searches if you do
whois "?"
(note the quotes around the question mark), or even more information if you do
whois help
Options-h servername Specifies the whois server on a host other than the default (NIC.DDN.MIL).
Examples
whois cerf
whois dec.com
whois -h ns.nic.ddn.mil knuth
whois smith
Note that the last example, at least, will match many records (and may take fairly long to complete). The whois server at the NIC will
automatically provide information on how to single out one record. Remember to put quotes around strings that contain `!' characters.
See Also
RFC 812: Nicname/Whois
whois(1)
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WHOIS.CONF(5) Debian GNU/Linux WHOIS.CONF(5)NAME
whois.conf - alternative WHOIS servers list for whois client
SYNOPSIS
/etc/whois.conf
DESCRIPTION
This file contains a list of WHOIS servers which can augment or override the built-in list of the client.
It's a plain text file in ASCII encoding. Each line consists of two fields: a pattern to match WHOIS object identifier and a corresponding
WHOIS server domain name.
Fields are separated by non-empty sequence of space or a tabular characters. A line starting with a hash character is a free comment and
it's not considered.
The pattern is case-insensitive extended regular expression if whois client has been compiled with POSIX regular expressions support. Oth-
erwise, simple case-insensitive suffix comparison against WHOIS object identifier is used.
Internationalized domain names (IDN) must be specified in ascii-compatible encoding (ACE) format.
EXAMPLE
.nz$ nz.whois-servers.net
# Hangul Korean TLD
.xn--3e0b707e$ whois.kr
# Private ASNs
^as645(1[2-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-4])$ whois.example.net
FILES
/etc/whois.conf
SEE ALSO whois(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Petr Pisa <ppisar@redhat.com> and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2
or higher.
Petr Pisa 9 April 2013 WHOIS.CONF(5)
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Hello,
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Hi guys,
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Hello folks,
I have list of ips like
1.1.1.1
2.2.2.2
3.3.3.3
4.4.4.4
whois 1.1.1.1 |grep -E 'country|Country'
it show country=US or whatever.
so i have number of ips in text file, how i can use above script to automate output like
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Hello, I was wondering how I can do a whois from a file with lots of ip's in this format
0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0
And so on, then print the whois data from all the ip's to one single file sort of like this "whois -r 'ipfile' > 'whoisfile'"
Thanks in advance!
... (3 Replies)
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Currently:
whois of a .co.nz domain results nameserver as follows.
ns_name_01: ns1.domain.co.nz
ns_name_02: ns2.domain.co.nz
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I want to ask which command i need to use, so the result is not cached and i dont cause any inappropriate overload?
i see:
whois domainname.com (when No... (1 Reply)
Dear All,
I want to get all the IPs of the A RECORDS for mail.google.com.
The aim is to deny access to these IPs.
I learnt that mail.google.com has several IPs.
I did the following steps:
1. whois google.com
2. I got the following as its DOMAIN SERVERS:
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whois mydomainname.com -f
+ whoisout='
'
I have:
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$ cat error.log
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