15 May
2001
15 May
'01
6:27 p.m.
In the referenced message, mike harrison said:
whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely not available on every current UNIX.
You can query any whois server with query@server ie: 192.168.1.1@arin.net works.
No match for "192.168.1.1@ARIN.NET". The moral of the story, RTFM to know how your own implimentation of whois works. Not all whois clients are made alike, and I'm not aware of any (POSIX for example) standards for it.