pwhois - Man Page

Get Whois information of domains and IP addresses.

Version

version 2.99040

Synopsis

        pwhois perl.com
        pwhois gnu.org
        pwhois -s police.co.il
        pwhois -c there.is.no.tld.called.foobar
        pwhois yahoo.com whois.networksolutions.com
        pwhois -T 10 funet.fi

etc etc.....

Description

Just invoke with a domain name, optionally with a whois server name. Switches:
   -s attempt to strip the copyright message or disclaimer.
   -c attempts to return an empty answer for failed searches.
   -e forces die if connection rate to server have been exceeded.
   -T set timeout for connection attempts
   -t enables caching.
   -a specify an ip address that should be used as source address
   -d enables debugging messages.
   -F returns results of the first query of recursive whois requests
   -L returns results of the last query of recursive whois requests (the default)
   -A returns results of the all queries of recursive whois requests

Name

pwhois   - Perl written whois client

Authors

Ariel Brosh schop@cpan.org Walery Studennikov despair@cpan.org

Current Maintainer: Alexander Nalobin nalobin@cpan.org

See Also

Net::Whois::Raw.

Author

Alexander Nalobin <alexander@nalobin.ru>

Info

2024-08-18 perl v5.40.0 User Contributed Perl Documentation