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Re: Whois -a?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Tue May 15 15:49:30 2001

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:47:01 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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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.

fwhois uses whois@server, Whois Classic uses whois -h server

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