WHOIS.CONF(5) Debian GNU/Linux WHOIS.CONF(5)
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 charac-
ters. 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. Other-
wise, simple case-insensitive suffix comparison against WHOIS object
identifier is used.
Internationalized domain names (IDN) must be specified in ascii-compati-
ble 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.
Petr Písař 2019-12-30 WHOIS.CONF(5)
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