NAME
CWHOIS - whois client
SYNOPSIS
cwhois [-a|-F|-L|-m|-M|-r|-S|-R] [-h hostname] [-s source[[,source]...]] [-T type[[,type]...]] [-i attr[[,attr]...]] keys
cwhois [-t type]
cwhois [-v type]
DESCRIPTION
cwhois Simple whois client that gives you back output, compatiable with RIPE DB v2, if you'll ask it to.
OPTIONS
- -a
-
search all databases
- -F
-
fast raw output
- -L
-
find all Less specific matches
- -m
-
find first level more specific matches
- -M
-
find all More specific matches
- -r
-
turn off recursive lookups
- -S
-
tell server to leave out 'syntactic sugar'
- -R
-
force to show local copy of the domain object even if it contains referral
- -h hostname
-
search alternate server
- -s source[[,source]...]
-
search databases with source 'source'
- -T type[[,type]...]
-
only look for objects of type 'type'
- -i attr[[,attr]...]
-
do an inverse lookup for specified attributes
- -t type
-
requests template for object of type 'type'
- -v type
-
requests verbose template for object of type 'type'
HINT
Please note that most of these flags are NOT understood by non RIPE whois servers!
SEE ALSO
Website <http://www.ripe.net/tools/>
AUTHOR
CWHOIS was written by Timur Bakeyev <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).