NAME
jwhois - client for the whois service
SYNOPSIS
jwhois [ OPTIONS ]... [ QUERY ]
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
--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.
RIPE EXTENSIONS
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.
SEE ALSO
whois(1)