RFC 1834 (rfc1834) - Page 3 of 7


Whois and Network Information Lookup Service, Whois++



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RFC 1834                 Whois++ Lookup Service              August 1995


   Title                   Working title or position       optional
                           within an organization

   Department              Department                      optional

   Email-address           Email address in RFC 822        optional
                           format for this individual

   Handle                  A unique identifier for this    required
                           record on the local server

   Last-record-update      Date this record was last       required
                           updated

   Home-telephone          Home telephone number           optional

   Home-address            Home postal address             optional


   Host records

   Hostname                Full domain name                required
   IPAddress               Address                         required
   Sysadmin-name           System administrator name       optional
   Sysadmin-phone          System administrator telephone  optional
   Sysadmin-address        System administrator address    optional
   Sysadmin-email          System admin. e-mail address    optional
   Machine-type            Type of machine                 optional
   OS                      Operating system                optional
   MX                      Mail exchanger                  optional
   Last-update             Last update                     optional
   Info                    Location of additional          optional
                           information (i.e. anonymous FTP)


   Domain records

   Domain-name             Domain name registered with     required
                           the Network Information Center
                           (NIC)

   Network-address         Network address associated      required
                           with this domain name

   Admin-name              Name of the Administrative      required
                           Contact for this domain





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