The host to query is taken from a global configuration file, a configuration file specified on the command line, or selected directly on the command line.
Tag | Description |
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--version | |
display version, authors and licensing information. | |
--help | display a short help text. |
-c FILE --config=FILE | |
uses FILE as a configuration file instead of the default. | |
-h HOST --host=HOST | |
overrides any hosts in the configuration file and queries HOST directly. | |
-p PORT --port=PORT | |
specifies a port number to use when querying a HOST. | |
-f --force-lookup | |
forces a query to be made to a host even if a current object is available from the cache. | |
-v --verbose | |
outputs verbose debugging information while running (use this before sending a bugreport to ensure that its indeed a bug and not a misconfiguration). You can increase the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to jwhois, such as -vv. | |
-n --no-redirect | |
disable features that redirect queries from one server to another. | |
-s --no-whoisservers | |
disable the built-in support for whois-servers.net. | |
-a --raw | send query verbatim to receiving hosts instead of rewriting them according to the configuration. |
-i --display-redirections | |
display every step in a redirection (default is to display only the last answer). | |
-d --disable-cache | |
completely disable both reading and writing to cache. | |
-r --rwhois | |
force the query to use the rwhois protocoll instead of HTTP or whois. | |
--rwhois-display=DISPLAY | |
asks receiving rwhois servers to display the results in the DISPLAY display instead of the default dump display. | |
--rwhois-limit=LIMIT | |
asks receiving rwhois servers to limit their responses to LIMIT matches.
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jwhois -h whois.ripe.net -- -i admin-c,tech-c,zone-c CO19-RIPE
-- is used to separate the RIPE options from the jwhois options.
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