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whois


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  whois 
 
  An  {Internet}  directory  service  for  looking  up  names  of  people 
  on  a  remote  server.  Many  servers  respond  to  {TCP}  queries  on 
  {port}  43,  in  a  manner  roughly  analogous  to  the  {DDN}  {NIC} 
  whois  service  described  in  {RFC}  954.  Other  sites  provide 
  this  directory  service  via  the  {finger}  {protocol}  or  accept 
  queries  by  {electronic  mail}  for  directory  information.  On 
  {Unix}  the  client  command  is 
 
  whois  -h  server_name  person_name 
 
  You  can  also  type  "telnet  server_name  43"  and  then  type  the 
  person's  name  on  a  separate  line  For  a  list  of  whois 
  servers,  FTP/Gopher:  sipb.mit.edu.  Or 
 
  whois  -h  sipb.mit.edu  whois-servers 
 
  As  the  above  command  demonstrates,  whois  can  find  information 
  about  things  other  than  users,  e.g.  domains,  networks  and 
  hosts. 
 
  See  also  {finger},  {X.500},  {white  pages}.