NAME

pwhois - Get Whois information of domains and IP addresses.

VERSION

version 2.99041

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>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2002-2025 by Alexander Nalobin.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.