NAME¶
CWHOIS - whois client
SYNOPSIS¶
cwhois
[
-a|
-F|
-L|
-m|
-M|
-r|
-S|
-R]
[
-h hostname] [
-s source[[,source]...]] [
-T
type[[,type]...]] [
-i attr[[,attr]...]] keys
cwhois [
-t type]
cwhois [
-v type]
DESCRIPTION¶
cwhois Simple whois client that gives you back output, compatiable with
RIPE DB v2, if you'll ask it to.
OPTIONS¶
- -a
- search all databases
- -F
- fast raw output
- -L
- find all Less specific matches
- -m
- find first level more specific matches
- -M
- find all More specific matches
- -r
- turn off recursive lookups
- -S
- tell server to leave out 'syntactic sugar'
- -R
- force to show local copy of the domain object even if it contains
referral
- -h hostname
- search alternate server
- -s source[[,source]...]
- search databases with source 'source'
- -T type[[,type]...]
- only look for objects of type 'type'
- -i attr[[,attr]...]
- do an inverse lookup for specified attributes
- -t type
- requests template for object of type 'type'
- -v type
- requests verbose template for object of type 'type'
HINT¶
Please note that most of these flags are NOT understood by non RIPE whois
servers!
SEE ALSO¶
Website <
http://www.ripe.net/tools/>
AUTHOR¶
CWHOIS was written by Timur Bakeyev <timur@ripe.net>.
This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>, for the
Debian project (but may be used by others).