bionic (5) whois.conf.5.gz

Provided by: whois_5.3.0_amd64 bug

NAME

       whois.conf - alternative WHOIS servers list for whois client

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/whois.conf

DESCRIPTION

       This file contains a list of WHOIS servers which can augment or override the built-in list of the client.

       It's  a  plain  text  file  in ASCII encoding. Each line consists of two fields: a pattern to match WHOIS
       object identifier and a corresponding WHOIS server domain name.

       Fields are separated by non-empty sequence of space or a tabular characters.  A line starting with a hash
       character is a free comment and it's not considered.

       The  pattern is case-insensitive extended regular expression if whois client has been compiled with POSIX
       regular expressions support. Otherwise, simple case-insensitive suffix comparison  against  WHOIS  object
       identifier is used.

       Internationalized domain names (IDN) must be specified in ascii-compatible encoding (ACE) format.

EXAMPLE

       \.nz$             nz.whois-servers.net
       # Hangul Korean TLD
       \.xn--3e0b707e$   whois.kr
       # Private ASNs
       ^as645(1[2-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-4])$    whois.example.net

FILES

       /etc/whois.conf

SEE ALSO

       whois(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com> and is licensed under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License, version 2 or higher.