1.PU
2.TH jwhois 1 "November 2001" GNU
3.SH NAME
4jwhois \- client for the whois service
5.SH SYNOPSIS
6.ll +8
7.B jwhois
8.RB
9[
10.I "OPTIONS"
11]...
12[
13.I "QUERY"
14]
15.ll -8
16.SH DESCRIPTION
17.I jwhois
18searches Whois servers for the object on the command line.
1920The host to query is taken from a global configuration file,
21a configuration file specified on the command line, or selected
22directly on the command line.
2324.SH OPTIONS
25.TP
26.B \-\-version
27display version, authors and licensing information.
28.TP
29.B \-\-help
30display a short help text.
31.TP
32.B \-c FILE \-\-config=FILE
33uses FILE as a configuration file instead of the default.
34.TP
35.B \-h HOST \-\-host=HOST
36overrides any hosts in the configuration file and queries HOST directly.
37.TP
38.B \-p PORT \-\-port=PORT
39specifies a port number to use when querying a HOST.
40.TP
41.B \-f \-\-force-lookup
42forces a query to be made to a host even if a current object
43is available from the cache.
44.TP
45.B \-v \-\-verbose
46outputs verbose debugging information while running (use this before
47sending a bugreport to ensure that it's indeed a bug and not a
48misconfiguration). You can increase the verbosity by giving several
49verbose commands to jwhois, such as \-vv.
50.TP
51.B \-n \-\-no-redirect
52disable features that redirect queries from one server to another.
53.TP
54.B \-s \-\-no-whoisservers
55disable the built-in support for whois-servers.net.
56.TP
57.B \-a \-\-raw
58send query verbatim to receiving hosts instead of rewriting them according
59to the configuration.
60.TP
61.B \-i \-\-display\-redirections
62display every step in a redirection (default is to display only the
63last answer).
64.TP
65.B \-d \-\-disable\-cache
66completely disable both reading and writing to cache.
67.TP
68.B \-r \-\-rwhois
69force the query to use the rwhois protocoll instead of HTTP or whois.
70.TP
71.B \-\-rwhois\-display=DISPLAY
72asks receiving rwhois servers to display the results in the DISPLAY display
73instead of the default dump display.
74.TP
75.B \-\-rwhois\-limit=LIMIT
76asks receiving rwhois servers to limit their responses to LIMIT matches.
7778.SS "RIPE EXTENSIONS"
79To use the options specified in
80.IR "RIPE Document 157" ,
81you need to change the format of the query slightly.
82If you were to search for all entries in
83the RIPE database which lists the
84.IR admin-c ", " tech-c " or " zone-c " as " CO19-RIPE ,
85you could use the following command syntax:
8687.B jwhois -h whois.ripe.net \-\- \-i admin-c,tech-c,zone-c CO19-RIPE
8889.B \-\-
90is used to separate the RIPE options from the jwhois options.
9192.ll -8
93.SH "SEE ALSO"
94whois(1)