jwhois(1)							    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 config-
       uration file specified 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 giv-
	      ing 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 protocoll 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)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. jwhois
2. host
3. file
4. display
5. as
6. disable
7. last
8. dump
9. which