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Re: Whois -a?
From: Peter van Dijk <peter () dataloss nl>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:35:37 +0200
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.
Current thread:
- RE: Whois -a? John Murphy (May 15)
- Re: Whois -a? Peter van Dijk (May 15)
- Re: Whois -a? mike harrison (May 15)
- RE: Whois -a? Mathias Koerber (May 15)
- RE: Whois -a? Jeffrey Wheat (May 15)
- Re: Whois -a? John Payne (May 15)
- Re: Whois -a? Steve Sobol (May 17)
- Re: Whois -a? Stephen Griffin (May 17)
- Re: Whois -a? mike harrison (May 15)
- Re: Whois -a? Peter van Dijk (May 15)
- Re: Whois -a? Shawn McMahon (May 15)
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- Re: Whois -a? Richard A. Steenbergen (May 17)