Re: whois.conf

[Jamie Baddeley <jamie.baddeley@vpc.co.nz>]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 00:59, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
> > apparently this can be done by setting up /etc/whois.conf, but I can't
> > work out what the syntax is. There's no docs, or any examples...I've
> > tried all the obvious approaches.


> OTOH you could also use the env variable:
> 
> WHOIS_SERVER
>     This server will be queried if the program cannot guess where some
>     kind of objects are located. If the variable does not exist then
>     whois.arin.net will be queried.
> 

No joy. That's what I tried previously.

Exporting the variables to my env worked fine i.e.

WHOIS_SERVER=whois.apnic.net
(also have tried WHOIS_SERVER whois.apnic.net,
WHOIS_SERVER:whois.apnic.net, WHOIS_SERVER	whois.apnic.net etc)

but this stanza didn't work in when placed whois.conf.

jamie