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NAME
       gwhois - generic whois client / server

SYNOPSIS
       gwhois <query>

DESCRIPTION
       gwhois  is  a  generic whois client. It strives to know for all existing tlds and all ip address ranges the appropiate whois server to ask.
       You can simply call gwhois 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.

       gwhois  can  also be used as a whois server. You can call it from the inetd and make it accessable via a normal standard whois client. This
       allows for example using a windows client and still make use of the enhanced features of gwhois.

FILES
       /etc/gwhois/pattern
	      The pattern file of gwhois. 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!

       /etc/gwhois/debconf.inc
	      File created depending on debconf question sending mail. Please do not change manually but instead use dpkg-reconfigure!

AUTHOR
       Michael Holzt <debian-gwhois@michael.holzt.de>

VERSION
       20100515

Linux								    19 Jan 2002 							 gwhois(1)