WHOIS(1)                   Commands and Applications                  WHOIS(1)

NAME

       whois - Internet user name directory service

SYNOPSIS

       whois [-h hostname] name ...

DESCRIPTION

       Whois  looks  up  records in the Network Information Center (NIC) data‐
       base.

       The options are as follows:

       -h     Use the specified host instead of the default NIC (nic.ddn.mil).

       The operands specified to whois are concatenated together (separated by
       white-space) and presented to the whois server.

       The  default  action, unless directed otherwise with a special name, is
       to do a very broad search, looking for matches to name in all types  of
       records  and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net address, etc.)
       in the database.  For more information as to what  name  operands  have
       special  meaning,  and  how  to  guide the search, use the special name
       help.

SEE ALSO

       RFC 812: Nicname/Whois

HISTORY

       The whois command appeared in 4.3BSD.



GNO                              15 April 1998                        WHOIS(1)