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                     37: .Dd June 20, 1994
                     38: .Dt WHOIS 1
1.5       aaron      39: .Os
1.1       deraadt    40: .Sh NAME
                     41: .Nm whois
1.3       deraadt    42: .Nd Internet domain name and network number directory service
1.1       deraadt    43: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     44: .Nm whois
1.3       deraadt    45: .Op Fl adpr
                     46: .Op Fl h Ar host
1.4       aaron      47: .Ar name Op Ar ...
1.1       deraadt    48: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.4       aaron      49: .Nm whois
1.3       deraadt    50: looks up records in the databases maintained by several
                     51: Network Information Centers
                     52: .Pq Tn NICs Ns .
1.1       deraadt    53: .Pp
                     54: The options are as follows:
                     55: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.3       deraadt    56: .It Fl a
                     57: Use the American Registry for Internet Numbers
                     58: .Pq Tn ARIN
                     59: database.  It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world
                     60: covered neither by
                     61: .Tn APNIC nor by
                     62: .Tn RIPE .
                     63: .It Fl d
                     64: Use the (US Military) Defense Data Network
                     65: .Pq Tn DDN
                     66: database.  It contains points of contact for subdomains of
                     67: .Tn \&.MIL Ns .
                     68: .It Fl h Ar host
                     69: Use the specified host instead of the default NIC
                     70: (whois.internic.net).
                     71: Either a host name or an IP address may be specified.
1.6     ! deraadt    72: .It Fl m
        !            73: Use the Route Arbiter Database
        !            74: .Pq Tn RADB
        !            75: database. It contains route policy specifications for a large
        !            76: number of operators' networks.
1.3       deraadt    77: .It Fl p
                     78: Use the Asia/Pacific Network Information Center
                     79: .Pq Tn APNIC
                     80: database.  It contains network numbers used in East Asia, Australia,
                     81: New Zealand, and the Pacific islands.
1.6     ! deraadt    82: .It Fl q
        !            83: Construct the name of a whois server to use from the top-level domain
        !            84: .Pq Tn TLD
        !            85: of the supplied (single) argument, and appending ".whois-servers.net".
        !            86: This effectively allows a suitable whois server to be selected
        !            87: automatically for a large number of TLDs.
1.3       deraadt    88: .It Fl r
                     89: Use the R\(aaeseaux IP Europ\(aaeens
                     90: .Pq Tn RIPE
                     91: database.  It contains network numbers and domain contact information
                     92: for Europe.
1.1       deraadt    93: .El
                     94: .Pp
                     95: The operands specified to
                     96: .Nm whois
                     97: are concatenated together (separated by white-space) and presented to
                     98: the
                     99: .Nm whois
                    100: server.
                    101: .Pp
                    102: The default action, unless directed otherwise with a special
                    103: .Ar name ,
                    104: is to do a very broad search, looking for matches to
                    105: .Ar name
                    106: in all types of records and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net
                    107: address, etc.) in the database.
                    108: For more information as to what
                    109: .Ar name
                    110: operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use
                    111: the special name
                    112: .Dq Ar help .
                    113: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    114: RFC 812: Nicname/Whois
                    115: .Sh HISTORY
                    116: The
                    117: .Nm whois
                    118: command appeared in
                    119: .Bx 4.3 .