[37529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois -a?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter van Dijk)
Tue May 15 09:38:21 2001
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:35:37 +0200
From: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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In-Reply-To: <4120015215132045717@murfnet.com>; from nanog@mail.murfnet.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:20:45AM -0500
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:20:45AM -0500, John Murphy wrote:
>
> Straight from the MAN page Roeland (man whois)...
>
> ...
> DESCRIPTION
> Whois looks up records in the databases maintained by several Network
> In-
> formation Centers (NICs).
>
> The options are as follows:
>
> -a Use the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) database.
> It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world
> cov-
> ered neither by APNIC nor by RIPE. Contact (handle) information
> should be looked up by appending "-ARIN" to the NIC handle:
> ...
whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely
not available on every current UNIX.
Greetz, Peter.
