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| 34 | .\" @(#)whois.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 6/20/94 |
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| 36 | .Dd June 20, 1994 |
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| 37 | .Dt WHOIS 1 |
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| 38 | .Os BSD 4.3 |
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| 39 | .Sh NAME |
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| 40 | .Nm whois |
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| 41 | .Nd Internet user name directory service |
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| 42 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
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| 43 | .Nm whois |
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| 44 | .Op Fl h Ar hostname |
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| 45 | .Ar name ... |
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| 46 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
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| 47 | .Nm Whois |
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| 48 | looks up records in the Network Information Center |
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| 49 | .Pq Tn NIC |
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| 50 | database. |
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| 51 | .Pp |
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| 52 | The options are as follows: |
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| 53 | .Bl -tag -width Ds |
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| 54 | .It Fl h |
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| 55 | Use the specified host instead of the default NIC (whois.internic.net). |
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| 56 | .El |
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| 57 | .Pp |
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| 58 | The operands specified to |
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| 59 | .Nm whois |
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| 60 | are concatenated together (separated by white-space) and presented to |
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| 61 | the |
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| 62 | .Nm whois |
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| 63 | server. |
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| 64 | .Pp |
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| 65 | The default action, unless directed otherwise with a special |
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| 66 | .Ar name , |
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| 67 | is to do a very broad search, looking for matches to |
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| 68 | .Ar name |
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| 69 | in all types of records and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net |
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| 70 | address, etc.) in the database. |
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| 71 | For more information as to what |
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| 72 | .Ar name |
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| 73 | operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use |
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| 74 | the special name |
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| 75 | .Dq Ar help . |
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| 76 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
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| 77 | RFC 812: Nicname/Whois |
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| 78 | .Sh HISTORY |
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| 79 | The |
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| 80 | .Nm whois |
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| 81 | command appeared in |
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| 82 | .Bx 4.3 . |
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