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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? Shawn McMahon (May 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Whois -a? Richard A. Steenbergen (May 17)