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MWHOIS.CONF(5) Debian GNU/Linux MWHOIS.CONF(5)
NAME
mwhois.conf - alternative WHOIS servers list for whois client
SYNOPSIS
/usr/local/etc/mwhois.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
/usr/local/etc/mwhois.conf
SEE ALSO
mwhois(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> and is
licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2
or higher.
Petr PAsaA<99> 9 April 2013 MWHOIS.CONF(5)