whois(1) — AIX PS/2 1.2.1



WHOIS(1,C)                  AIX TCP/IP User's Guide                  WHOIS(1,C)



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whois



PURPOSE

DARPA Internet user name directory service.

SYNTAX


         +-----------+
whois ---|           |--- name ---|
         +- -h host -+


DESCRIPTION

Whois help produces a message similar to the following:

  Please enter a name or a handle ("ident") such as Smith or
  SRI-NIC.  Starting with a period forces a name only search; starting
  with exclamation point forces handle only.  Examples:

  Smith           [  looks for name or handle Smith  ]
  !SRI-NIC        [  looks for handle SRI-NIC only ]
  .Smith, John    [  looks for name JOHN SMITH only ]

Adding " . . ." to the argument will match anything from that point, such as
"ZU" will match ZUL, ZUM, etc.

To have the entire membership list of a group or organization, if you  a asking
about a group or organization, shown with the record, use an asterisk character
(*) directly preceding the given argument.  If there are a lot of members this
will take a long time.  You may, of course, use an exclamation point and
asterisk or a period and asterisk together.

Note:  whois is only useful with an Internet directory service.  AIX is not
currently distributed with an Internet directory service.

FLAGS

-h host Connects to the specified host to find an Internet Directory Service.
        If no host is specified, the host sri-nic.arpa is assumed.










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