NAME¶
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)