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@cpan.org

Current Maintainer: Walery Studennikov despair@cpan.org

SEE ALSO

Net::Whois::Raw.