January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Name
whois
Synopsis
whois [option]name
Queries the Network Information Center (NIC) database to display registration records matching name. Multiple names need to be separated by whitespace. The special name “help” will return more information on the command’s use.
Option
-
-h Use to specify a different whois server to query. The default is
whois.internet.net.