WHOIS.CONF(5) Debian GNU/Linux WHOIS.CONF(5)NAMEwhois.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 over‐
ride 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 char‐
acters. 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. Other‐
wise, simple case-insensitive suffix comparison against WHOIS object
identifier is used.
Internationalized domain names (IDN) must be specified in ascii-compat‐
ible encoding (ACE) format.
EXAMPLE
\.nz$ nz.whois-servers.net
# Hangul Korean TLD
\.xn--3e0b707e$ whois.kr
FILES
/etc/whois.conf
SEE ALSOwhois(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com> and is
licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2
or higher.
Petr Písař 9 April 2013 WHOIS.CONF(5)