RE: Whois -a?

["Jeffrey Wheat" <jeff () cetlink net>]

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.