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.\" @(#)whois.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.TH WHOIS 1 "15 April 1998" GNO "Commands and Applications"
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.SH NAME
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.BR whois
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\- Internet user name directory service
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR whois
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.RB [ -h
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.IR hostname ]
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.IR name " ..."
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR Whois
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looks up records in the Network Information Center (NIC) database.
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.LP
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The options are as follows:
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.IP \fB-h\fR
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Use the specified host instead of the default NIC (nic.ddn.mil).
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.LP
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The operands specified to
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.BR whois
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are concatenated together (separated by white-space) and presented to
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the
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.BR whois
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server.
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.LP
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The default action, unless directed otherwise with a special
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.BR name ,
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is to do a very broad search, looking for matches to
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.BR name
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in all types of records and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net
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address, etc.) in the database.
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For more information as to what
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.BR name
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operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use
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the special name
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.IR help .
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.SH SEE ALSO
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RFC 812: Nicname/Whois
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.SH HISTORY
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The
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.BR whois
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command appeared in 4.3BSD.
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