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| 34 | .\" @(#)whois.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 6/20/94 |
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| 36 | .TH WHOIS 1 "June 20, 1994" |
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| 37 | .UC 4 |
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| 38 | .SH NAME |
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| 39 | whois \- Internet user name directory service |
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| 40 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 41 | .B whois [ \-h |
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| 42 | hostname |
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| 43 | .B ] |
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| 44 | name ... |
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| 45 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 46 | .I Whois |
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| 47 | looks up records in the Network Information Center (NIC) database. |
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| 48 | .PP |
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| 49 | The options are as follows: |
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| 50 | .IP \fB\-h\fP |
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| 51 | Use the specified host instead of the default NIC (whois.internic.net). |
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| 52 | .PP |
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| 53 | The operands specified to |
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| 54 | .I whois |
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| 55 | are concatenated together (separated by white-space) and presented to |
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| 56 | the |
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| 57 | .I whois |
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| 58 | server. |
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| 59 | .PP |
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| 60 | The default action, unless directed otherwise with a special |
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| 61 | .IR name , |
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| 62 | is to do a very broad search, looking for matches to |
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| 63 | .I name |
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| 64 | in all types of records and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net |
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| 65 | address, etc.) in the database. |
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| 66 | For more information as to what |
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| 67 | .I name |
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| 68 | operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use |
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| 69 | the special name `help'. |
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| 70 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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| 71 | RFC 812: Nicname/Whois |
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| 72 | .SH HISTORY |
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| 73 | The |
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| 74 | .I whois |
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| 75 | command appeared in BSD 4.3. |
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