From f77fe271a4a5ebca24d217e7fd0e858492308e6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco d'Itri Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 04:11:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] whois.1: remove the paragraph about whois.networksolutions.com Since it has not been the default server for gTLD queries in a very long time. --- whois.1 | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/whois.1 b/whois.1 index 8b7b44b..99e44ae 100644 --- a/whois.1 +++ b/whois.1 @@ -137,10 +137,6 @@ Return the verbose template for a object of \fITYPE\fP. .B -x Search for only exact match on network address prefix. .SH "NOTES" -Please remember that \fIwhois.networksolutions.com\fP by default will -only search in the domains database. If you want to search for NIC handles -you have to prepend a \fI!\fP character. When you do this, the default -server becomes \fIwhois.networksolutions.com\fP. .P When querying \fIwhois.arin.net\fP for IPv4 or IPv6 networks, the CIDR netmask length will be automatically removed from the query string.