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pwhois: Perl written whois client

NAME

pwhois - Perl written whois client

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

AUTHORS

Ariel Brosh schop [at] cpan.org

Current Maintainer: Walery Studennikov despair [at] cpan.org