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                     36: .Dd June 20, 1994
                     37: .Dt WHOIS 1
                     38: .Os BSD 4.3
                     39: .Sh NAME
                     40: .Nm whois
                     41: .Nd Internet user name directory service
                     42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     43: .Nm whois
                     44: .Op Fl h Ar hostname
                     45: .Ar name ...
                     46: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     47: .Nm Whois
                     48: looks up records in the Network Information Center
                     49: .Pq Tn NIC
                     50: database.
                     51: .Pp
                     52: The options are as follows:
                     53: .Bl -tag -width Ds
                     54: .It Fl h
                     55: Use the specified host instead of the default NIC (whois.internic.net).
                     56: .El
                     57: .Pp
                     58: The operands specified to
                     59: .Nm whois
                     60: are concatenated together (separated by white-space) and presented to
                     61: the
                     62: .Nm whois
                     63: server.
                     64: .Pp
                     65: The default action, unless directed otherwise with a special
                     66: .Ar name ,
                     67: is to do a very broad search, looking for matches to
                     68: .Ar name
                     69: in all types of records and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net
                     70: address, etc.) in the database.
                     71: For more information as to what
                     72: .Ar name
                     73: operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use
                     74: the special name
                     75: .Dq Ar help .
                     76: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     77: RFC 812: Nicname/Whois
                     78: .Sh HISTORY
                     79: The
                     80: .Nm whois
                     81: command appeared in
                     82: .Bx 4.3 .