[37536] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Whois -a?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Wheat)
Tue May 15 10:54:08 2001
From: "Jeffrey Wheat" <jeff@cetlink.net>
To: "Mathias Koerber" <mathias@koerber.org>,
"mike harrison" <meuon@highertech.net>,
"Peter van Dijk" <peter@dataloss.nl>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:45:26 -0400
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On most of all the flavors of Unix I have used in recent years,
whois -h whois.server query works. ie: whois -h whois.arin.net 192.168.1
Regards,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Mathias Koerber
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:18 AM
To: mike harrison; Peter van Dijk
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Whois -a?
> > whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely
> > not available on every current UNIX.
>
> You can query any whois server with query@server
> ie: 192.168.1.1@arin.net works.
This too is dependent on your WHOIS client, and NOT available
(by default) on all UNICES.
