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jwhois - client for the whois service
jwhois [ OPTIONS ]...
[ QUERY ]
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.
- --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 protocoll 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.
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.
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