jwhois(1)                            General Commands Manual                            jwhois(1)



NAME
       jwhois - client for the whois service

SYNOPSIS
       jwhois  [ OPTIONS ]...  [ QUERY ]

DESCRIPTION
       jwhois searches Whois servers for the object on the command line.

       The  host  to query is taken from a global configuration file, a configuration file speci‐
       fied on the command line, or selected directly on the command line.


OPTIONS
       --version
              display version, authors and licensing information.

       --help display a short help text.

       -c FILE --config=FILE
              uses FILE as a configuration file instead of the default.

       -h HOST --host=HOST
              overrides any hosts in the configuration file and queries HOST directly.

       -p PORT --port=PORT
              specifies a port number to use when querying a HOST.

       -f --force-lookup
              forces a query to be made to a host even if a current object is available from  the
              cache.

       -v --verbose
              outputs  verbose  debugging  information  while  running (use this before sending a
              bugreport to ensure that it's indeed a bug and not  a  misconfiguration).  You  can
              increase the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to jwhois, such as -vv.

       -n --no-redirect
              disable features that redirect queries from one server to another.

       -s --no-whoisservers
              disable the built-in support for whois-servers.net.

       -a --raw
              send  query  verbatim to receiving hosts instead of rewriting them according to the
              configuration.

       -i --display-redirections
              display every step in a redirection (default is to display only the last answer).

       -d --disable-cache
              completely disable both reading and writing to cache.

       -r --rwhois
              force the query to use the rwhois protocol instead of HTTP or whois.

       --rwhois-display=DISPLAY
              asks receiving rwhois servers to display the results in the DISPLAY display instead
              of the default dump display.

       --rwhois-limit=LIMIT
              asks receiving rwhois servers to limit their responses to LIMIT matches.


   RIPE EXTENSIONS
       To  use  the  options specified in RIPE Document 157, you need to change the format of the
       query slightly.  If you were to search for all entries in the RIPE  database  which  lists
       the admin-c, tech-c or zone-c as CO19-RIPE, you could use the following command syntax:

       jwhois -h whois.ripe.net -- -i admin-c,tech-c,zone-c CO19-RIPE

       -- is used to separate the RIPE options from the jwhois options.


SEE ALSO
       whois(1)



GNU                                       November 2001                                 jwhois(1)