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.TH QUERY-LOC 1 "January 11, 2005"
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.SH NAME
query-loc \- to retrieve and display the location information in the DNS
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B query-loc
.RI [-v] [-d nnn] " host"
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B query-loc
command.
.PP
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\fBquery-loc\fP is a program to retrieve and display the location
information in the DNS. 

It uses the algorithms described in
RFC 1876 (and RFC 1101 to get the network names).
You can find examples of networks wchich implement this scheme
in the ADDRESSES file.
 
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
Verbose mode. 
.TP
.B \-d nnn
Debug mode. Displays the RFC's algorithm

.SH BUGS

Very few hosts have location information.

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer@debian.org>.

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