whois(1) usage

2004-04-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
From URL:http://www.sixxs.net/faq/account/?faq=6bonehandle:

| * First, read about the person template:
|   whois -h whois.6bone.net -v person.

FreeBSD's whois(1) does not have a -v flag.  I checked a Mandrake
Linux system, and there -v is supported and obviously produces the
expected result.

So, how do I execute the query above with our whois command?

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Re: whois(1) usage

2004-04-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 15), Christian Weisgerber said:
 From URL:http://www.sixxs.net/faq/account/?faq=6bonehandle:
 
 | * First, read about the person template:
 |   whois -h whois.6bone.net -v person.
 
 FreeBSD's whois(1) does not have a -v flag.  I checked a Mandrake
 Linux system, and there -v is supported and obviously produces the
 expected result.
 
 So, how do I execute the query above with our whois command?

whois -h whois.6bone.net -- -v person

works for me, on both FreeBSD and Linux whois.  -v is not really a
whois option at all; it's a remote server flag.  I assume there are
others, and the above syntax is the only way to pass all possible flags
(Linux's syntax only works with flags that the whois binary itself
doesn't use).

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