From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 17 02:49:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA06219 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 02:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (mailrelay1.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA06214 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 02:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA24335; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:48:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970617104806.27333@pavilion.net> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:48:06 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: James FitzGibbon , Satoshi Asami , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port of ripe's extended whois client. References: <199706081213.FAA12082@blimp.mimi.com> <19970615101005.QM56070@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 In-Reply-To: <19970615101005.QM56070@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 10:10:05AM +0200 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 10:10:05AM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > As James FitzGibbon wrote: > > > Nope, that's the referral whois server (distributed whois) that I did last > > week. RIPE whois is (from what I understand) a whois server that queries > > the RIPE database (European registrar, right ?) > > Curious, is this just the same as typing ``whois -h whois.ripe.net''? > In this case, it would be a little silly to have an extra program for > it. Of course it would be ;). The ripe version includes extra flags. >From ripewhois -h... Joe -------------------------------------------------------------- -a search all databases -F fast raw output -h hostname search alternate server -i [attr][[,attr] ... ] do an inverse lookup for specified attributes -L find all Less specific matches -m find first level more specific matches -M find all More specific matches -p port port to connect to -r turn off recursive lookups -s source[[,source] ... ] search databases with source 'source' -S tell server to leave out 'syntactic sugar' -t type requests template for object of type 'type' -v type requests verbose template for object of type 'type' -T type[[,type] ... ] only look for objects of type 'type' Please note that most of these flags are NOT understood by non RIPE whois servers -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]