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.TH vgwhois 1 "26 Apr 2012" Linux "User Manuals"

.SH NAME

vgwhois \- ViaThinkSoft Global WhoIs

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B vgwhois [-h host] [-m method:host mirror] [-L] [-e] [-v] [-?] [query]

.SH DESCRIPTION

vgwhois is a generic whois client. It strives to know for all existing

tlds and all ip address ranges the appropriate whois server to ask. You

can simply call vgwhois with a query for some domain or some IP and it

will ask the right server for you! It can even query webforms which

are unfortunately the only query type supported by many bad registries.

vgwhois can also be used as a whois server. You can call it from the

inetd and make it accessible via a normal standard whois client. This

allows for example using a windows client and still make use of the

enhanced features of vgwhois.

.SH OPTIONS

Try find information about the query (might be multiple words).

If no query is given, use the first line from stdin

 Options:

   \-h host                 Selecting a fixed whois server for this query

   \-m method:host mirror   Defining a mirror for a given method and host.

   \-L                      Use lynx \-source instead of LWP::Simple

   \-e                      Do not protect e\-mail\-addresses

   \-v                      Output version of pattern table(s)

   \-?, \-\-help              Printing this text

.SH FILES

.TP

.IB /etc/vgwhois/pattern.d/*

The pattern file(s) of vgwhois. Contains the list of domain and IP to

server mappings. It is in a machine readable regexp format but should

be easy to understand by humans, too. If you have additions and

corrections please report them always to the authors!

Attention: IPv4, IPv6, TLD and ASN pattern files will be replaced

when the script

.B vgwhois\-pattern\-update

is executed.

The domain pattern file will only be extended without overwriting or deleted anything.

.TP

.IB /etc/vgwhois/debconf.inc

File created depending on debconf question sending mail. Please do

not change manually but instead use dpkg\-reconfigure!

.TP

.IB /usr/share/vgwhois/maintenance/pattern\-generator/vgwhois\-pattern\-update

You can run this script to get the latest information according to IPv4, IPv6, ASN and TLD

resources from the RIRs. The

.B pattern.d/(ipv4_*|ipv6_*|tld|asn)

files will be overwritten.

.SH DIRECTORIES

.TP

.IB /usr/share/vgwhois/maintenance/

In this directory you will find programs which you can use to maintain the pattern files.

.TP

.IB /usr/share/vgwhois/subprogram/

In this directory you'll find "sub programs". They are called by vgwhois by definition in the

pattern file and can do complex parsing. You can also call the sub programs independently.

.TP

.IB /var/cache/vgwhois/maintenance/pattern\-generator/

In this directory,

.B /usr/share/vgwhois/maintenance/pattern\-generator/vgwhois\-pattern\-update

will save its downloaded RIR statistics files. If you run the script multiple times (e.g. via cronjob)

and the RIR statistics file has not changed yet, this will save traffic because the file will not be

downloaded twice.

.SH AUTHORS

2010\-2019 Daniel Marschall <daniel\-marschall@viathinksoft.de>

1998\-2012 Juliane Holzt <debian@julijane.de>

Some early parts by Lutz Donnerhacke <Lutz.Donnerhacke@Jena.Thur.de>

.SH VERSION

2019xxxx WIP