[37540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois -a?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Tue May 15 12:28:10 2001
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:26:05 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Mathias Koerber <mathias@koerber.org>
Cc: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>,
Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>, nanog@nanog.org
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In-Reply-To: <NEBBLGLDKLMMGKEMEFMFAEDJCGAA.mathias@koerber.org>; from mathias@koerber.org on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:18:27PM +0800
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:18:27PM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
>
> > > 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.
If whois -h server blah or whois blah@server doesn't work, then you've
got a whois client the likes of which I have not seen.
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