I tried the two. My whois client is rather elderly but is pretty bog standard, being the one bundled with a stable Linux distro On Monday, March 4, 2013, Leo Vegoda wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi all, On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:19 AM, "Denis Walker" <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'denis@ripe.net')">denis@ripe.net</a>> wrote: > Dear Suresh > > I think this may be a problem with your command line client. From my > command line I get a long list of results returned for the query: > $ whois -rG -i mnt-by MNT-ANONYMOUS I don't know if it counts as a top tip but I telnet to <a href="http://whois.ripe.net" target="_blank">whois.ripe.net</a> on port 43 and enter the search query that way instead of trying to get a client to do what I want. HTH, Leo</blockquote> -- --srs (iPad)