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

NAME
       whois - client for the whois directory service

SYNOPSIS
       whois  [	 {  -h | --host } HOST ] [ { -p | --port } PORT ] [ -abBcdGHK‐
       lLmMrRx	]  [  -g   SOURCE:FIRST-LAST   ]   [   -i   ATTR[,ATTR]...   ]
       [ -s SOURCE[,SOURCE]... ] [ -T TYPE[,TYPE]... ] [ --verbose ] OBJECT

       whois -q KEYWORD

       whois -t TYPE

       whois -v TYPE

       whois --help

       whois --version


DESCRIPTION
       whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 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.networksolutions.com  for	NIC handles or whois.arin.net for IPv4
       addresses and network names.

OPTIONS
       -h HOST, --host HOST
	       Connect to HOST.

       -H      Do not display the legal disclaimers some  registries  like  to
	       show you.

       -p, --port PORT
	       Connect to PORT.

       --verbose
	       Be verbose.

       --help  Display online help.

       --version
	       Display client version information.

       Other  options  are  flags  understood by whois.ripe.net and some other
       RIPE-like servers:

       -a      Also search all the mirrored databases.

       -b      Return brief IP address ranges with abuse contact.

       -B      Disable object filtering. (Show the e-mail addresses.)

       -c      Return the smallest IP address range with a reference to an irt
	       object.

       -d      Return the reverse DNS delegation object too.

       -g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST
	       Search  updates	from  SOURCE  database	between FIRST and LAST
	       update serial number. It's useful to obtain Near Real Time Mir‐
	       roring stream.

       -G      Disable grouping of associated objects.

       -i ATTR[,ATTR]...
	       Search  objects having associated attributes. ATTR is attribute
	       name.  Attribute value is positional OBJECT argument.

       -K      Return  primary	key  attributes	 only.	Exception  is  members
	       attribute  of  set  object  which  is  always returned. Another
	       exceptions are all attributes of objects organisation,  person,
	       and role that are never returned.

       -l      Return the one level less specific object.

       -L      Return all levels of less specific objects.

       -m      Return all one level more specific objects.

       -M      Return all levels of more specific objects.

       -q KEYWORD
	       Return  list  of	 keywords  supported by server. KEYWORD can be
	       version for server version, sources for list  of	 source	 data‐
	       bases, or types for object types.

       -r      Disable recursive look-up for contact information.

       -R      Disable	following  referrals and force showing the object from
	       the local copy in the server.

       -s SOURCE[,SOURCE]...
	       Request the server to search for objects mirrored from SOURCES.
	       Sources	are  delimited	by comma and the order is significant.
	       Use -q sources option to obtain list of valid sources.

       -t TYPE Return the template for a object of TYPE.

       -T TYPE[,TYPE]...
	       Restrict the search to objects of TYPE. Multiple types are sep‐
	       arated by a comma.

       -v TYPE Return the verbose template for a object of TYPE.

       -x      Search for only exact match on network address prefix.

NOTES
       When  querying  the  Verisign  gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net...) thin registry
       servers for a domain the program will automatically prepend the	domain
       keyword	to only show domain records.  The nameserver or registrar key‐
       words must be used to show other kinds of records.

       When querying whois.arin.net for IPv4 or IPv6 networks, the  CIDR  net‐
       mask length will be automatically removed from the query string.

       When querying whois.nic.ad.jp for AS numbers, the program will automat‐
       ically convert the request in the appropriate format, inserting a space
       after the string AS.

       When  querying  whois.denic.de for domain names and no other flags have
       been specified, the program will automatically add the flag -T dn.

       When querying whois.dk-hostmaster.dk for	 domain	 names	and  no	 other
       flags  have been specified, the program will automatically add the flag
       --show-handles.

       RIPE-specific command line options are ignored when  querying  non-RIPE
       servers.	 This  may  or	may not be the behaviour intended by the user.
       When querying a non-standard server, command line options which are not
       to  be  interpreted by the client should always follow the -- separator
       (which marks the beginning of the query string).

       If the /etc/whois.conf configuration file exists, it will be  consulted
       to  find	 a  server  before applying the normal rules. Each line of the
       file should contain a regular expression	 to  be	 matched  against  the
       query  text and the whois server to use, separated by white space.  IDN
       domains must use the ACE format.

       The whois protocol does not specify an encoding	for  characters	 which
       cannot be represented by ASCII and implementations vary wildly.	If the
       program knows that a specific server uses a certain encoding, if needed
       it  will	 transcode  the server output to the encoding specified by the
       current system locale.

       Command line arguments will always be interpreted  accordingly  to  the
       current	system locale and converted to the IDN ASCII Compatible Encod‐
       ing.

FILES
       /etc/whois.conf

ENVIRONMENT
       LANG   When querying whois.nic.ad.jp and whois.jprs.jp English text  is
	      requested	 unless	 the LANG or LC_MESSAGES environment variables
	      specify a Japanese locale.

       WHOIS_OPTIONS
	      A list of options which will be evaluated before the ones speci‐
	      fied on the command line.

       WHOIS_SERVER
	      This  server  will  be queried if the program cannot guess where
	      some kind of objects are located. If the variable does not exist
	      then whois.arin.net will be queried.

SEE ALSO
       whois.conf(5)

       RFC 3912: WHOIS Protocol Specification

       RIPE   Database	 Query	Reference  Manual:  <http://www.ripe.net/data-
       tools/support/documentation/ripe-database-query-reference-manual>

BUGS
       The program may have buffer overflows in the command  line  parser:  be
       sure to not pass untrusted data to it.  It should be rewritten to use a
       dynamic strings library.

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 origi‐
       nal BSD client.	I also	added  support	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 <md@linux.it> and
       are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version
       2 or higher.

Marco d'Itri		       20 December 2009			      WHOIS(1)
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