whois.conf

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 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 compar
   ison 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.

Petr Písař 2019-12-30 WHOIS.CONF(5)