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| author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-02 22:51:17 +0000 |
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| committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-02 22:51:17 +0000 |
| commit | b813631de194a434f29462384ff05f5954693783 (patch) | |
| tree | db15a5d9c011d6557f7eb09b9f63d44f89a2cf63 /usr.bin/whois | |
| parent | 705c38904d4c33686f447d07bfe5790b88e319ef (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-b813631de194a434f29462384ff05f5954693783.zip FreeBSD-src-b813631de194a434f29462384ff05f5954693783.tar.gz | |
Tell people how to look up NIC handle information these days (for the two
cases I know about -- Netsol and ARIN).
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/whois')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/whois/whois.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/whois/whois.1 b/usr.bin/whois/whois.1 index 280e2aa..d0ab409 100644 --- a/usr.bin/whois/whois.1 +++ b/usr.bin/whois/whois.1 @@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ database. It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world covered neither by .Tn APNIC nor by .Tn RIPE . +Contact (handle) information should be looked up by appending "-ARIN" to the +NIC handle: +.Pp +.D1 Ic $ whois -a foo3-ARIN +.Pp .It Fl d Use the US Department of Defense database. It contains points of contact for subdomains of @@ -98,6 +103,11 @@ Also, note that the InterNIC database is no longer handled by Network Solutions, Inc. For details, see: http://www.internic.net/. +Contact (handle) information should be looked up by prefixing "handle " to the +NIC handle in the querry: +.Pp +.D1 Ic $ whois -i 'handle foo3' +.Pp .It Fl m Use the Route Arbiter Database .Pq Tn RADB |
