Registry Working Group

["Kuch/Mitchell/D." <>]

Nice catch. The "--" is a function of the whois client to separate client 
side and service side arguments. It is described in the man page for WHOIS(1).

>> When querying a non-standard server, command line options which are not to 
>> be interpreted by the client should always follow the -- separator (which 
>> marks the beginning of the query string).
Source: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/whois/whois.1.en.html

 - - Mitchell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pennington, Mike" <>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:02:39 AM
Subject: RE: [WG-IRR] Working example of -B flag for whois -h rr.arin.net

Winner winner chicken dinner!  Thanks Michael!! So the -- is the syntax you 
need to add after the main command when adding any of the variables when 
using the help command. 
                          
Mike Pennington
CEN | Network Engineer
Hartford CT | 06105-3702
p 860 622 4566 
Check out our new website! ctedunet.net



-----Original Message-----
From:  [] On 
Behalf Of Michael H Lambert
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:58 AM
To: 
Subject: Re: [WG-IRR] Working example of -B flag for whois -h rr.arin.net

Just a guess, but does

        whois -h rr.arin.net -- -B xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24

work?

Michael

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 10:43, Pennington, Mike <> 
> wrote:
> 
> I’m having a heck of a time trying to use this –B flag to remove the 
> filters to see all information.  Does anyone have a working example of the 
> command?
>  
> I’ve tried:
>  
> Whois –h rr.arin.net XXX.XXX.X.X/24 -B Whois –h –B rr.arin.net 
> XXX.XXX.X.X/24 Whois –h rr.arin.net –B XXX.XXX.X.X/24
>  
>  
> % -B               Disables the filtering of "notify:", "changed:" and 
> "e-mail:"
> %                  attributes.
> %
>  
>  
>  
> Trying to remove an extra entry.
>  
> Thanks
> Mike
>  
>  
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>                     
> Mike Pennington
> CEN | Network Engineer
> Hartford CT | 06105-3702
> p 860 622 4566
> Check out our new website! ctedunet.net

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