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Bjarni Ingi Gislason 2023-07-07 23:19:38 +00:00 committed by Marco d'Itri
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@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ whois \- client for the whois directory service
.BR \-T \~
.IR TYPE [, TYPE ]...\~]
.RB [\~ \-\-verbose \~]
.RB [\~ \-\-no-recursion \~]
.RB [\~ \-\-no\-recursion \~]
.I OBJECT
.B whois
@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ whois \- client for the whois directory service
.B whois \-\-version
.PP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B whois
searches for an object in a
@ -55,11 +54,10 @@ ask for the specified object. If no guess can be made it will connect to
for NIC handles or
.I whois.arin.net
for IPv4 addresses and network names.
.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 8
.B \-h \c
.IR HOST ", "\c
.IR HOST ,
.BI \-\-host= HOST
Connect to
.IR HOST .
@ -68,7 +66,7 @@ Connect to
Do not display the legal disclaimers that some registries like to show you.
.TP 8
.B \-p \c
.IR PORT ", "\c
.IR PORT ,
.BI \-\-port= PORT
Connect to
.IR PORT .
@ -82,7 +80,7 @@ AS numbers and domains.
.BR BEWARE :
this implies that the IANA server will receive your complete query.
.TP 8
.B \-\-no-recursion
.B \-\-no\-recursion
Disable recursion from registry to registrar servers.
.TP 8
.B \-\-verbose
@ -106,7 +104,8 @@ Also search all the mirrored databases.
Return brief IP address ranges with abuse contact.
.TP 8
.B \-B
Disable objects filtering. (Show the e-mail addresses.)
Disable objects filtering.
(Show the e-mail addresses.)
.TP 8
.B \-c
Return the smallest IP address range with a reference to an irt object.
@ -128,7 +127,7 @@ update serial number. It is useful to obtain Near Real Time Mirroring stream.
Disable grouping of associated objects.
.TP 8
.B \-i \c
.I ATTR[,ATTR]...
.IR ATTR [, ATTR ]...
Inverse-search objects having associated attributes.
.I ATTR
is the attribute name, while the positional
@ -180,12 +179,12 @@ Disable following referrals and force showing the object from the local copy
in the server.
.TP 8
.B \-s \c
.I SOURCE[,SOURCE]...
.IR SOURCE [, SOURCE ]...
Request the server to search for objects mirrored from
.IR SOURCE .
Sources are delimited by comma, and the order is significant.
Use the
.I -q sources
.I \-q sources
parameter to obtain a list of valid sources.
.TP 8
.B \-t \c
@ -194,7 +193,7 @@ Return the template for a object of
.IR TYPE .
.TP 8
.B \-T \c
.I TYPE[,TYPE]...
.IR TYPE [, TYPE ]...
Restrict the search to objects of
.IR TYPE .
Multiple types are separated by a comma.
@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ Return the verbose template for a object of
.B \-x
Search for only exact match on network address prefix.
.SH NOTES
When querying the Verisign gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net...) thin registry servers
When querying the Verisign gTLDs (e.g.\& \&.com, \&.net...\&) thin registry servers
for a domain, the program will automatically prepend the
.I domain
keyword to only show domain records. The
@ -231,7 +230,7 @@ When querying
.I whois.denic.de
for domain names and no other
flags have been specified, the program will automatically add the flag
.IR "-T dn" .
.IR "\-T dn" .
.P
When querying
.I whois.dk\-hostmaster.dk