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Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition
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Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition

by Douglas Mauro, Kevin Schmidt
September 2005
Beginner
462 pages
12h 56m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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whois

The whois command is used to obtain domain name registrar information:

$ jwhois yahoo.com
Registrant:
       Yahoo! Inc.
       (DOM-272993)
       701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
       CA
       94089 US
 
   Domain Name: yahoo.com
 
       Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
       Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
       Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com
 
   Administrative Contact:
       Domain Administrator
       (NIC-1382062)
       Yahoo! Inc.
       701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
       CA
       94089 US
       domainadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1.4083493300 Fax- +1.4083493301
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
       Domain Administrator
       (NIC-1372925)
       Yahoo! Inc.
       701 First Avenue Sunnyvale
       CA
       94089 US
       domainadmin@yahoo-inc.com +1.4083493300 Fax- +1.4083493301
 
   Created on..............: 1995-Jan-18.
   Expires on..............: 2012-Jan-19.
   Record last updated on..: 2005-Apr-05 16:34:22.
 
   Domain servers in listed order:
 
   NS4.YAHOO.COM               63.250.206.138
   NS5.YAHOO.COM               216.109.116.17
   NS1.YAHOO.COM               66.218.71.63
   NS2.YAHOO.COM               66.163.169.170
   NS3.YAHOO.COM               217.12.4.104

If you are troubleshooting and the path takes you across a network that you have no control over, you can use whois to find out whom to contact for a domain. While this isn't 100% accurate, it is better than nothing.

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