15 May
2001
15 May
'01
9:35 a.m.
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:20:45AM -0500, John Murphy wrote:
Straight from the MAN page Roeland (man whois)...
... DESCRIPTION Whois looks up records in the databases maintained by several Network In- formation Centers (NICs).
The options are as follows:
-a Use the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) database. It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world cov- ered neither by APNIC nor by RIPE. Contact (handle) information should be looked up by appending "-ARIN" to the NIC handle: ...
whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely not available on every current UNIX. Greetz, Peter.