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Death of WHOIS, Film at 11
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg () tristatelogic com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:05:51 -0700
In message <58150673.5090201 () foobar org>, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:
David Conrad already pointed out that this problem has been solved using RDAP which supports referrals. Try installing the nicinfo command from: https://github.com/arineng/nicinfo At a guess, I'd say referrals haven't been implemented in whois because the whois "protocol" is unfixably broken and unsuitable for distributed information sharing.
So basically, you're saying that the fact that port 43 is still open and still providing answers... known inaccurante answers... at all of the following places is just one big tease? whois.iana.org whois.arin.net whois.ripe.net whois.apnic.net whois.lacnic.net whois.afrinic.net So the overall game plan is to continue to have these things all give out inaccurate and/or misleanding answers until such time as all of the trusting old school hacks like me either die out or get the memo telling us to just stop using this stuff? If so, thanks for telling me. Nobody else has so far had the courtesy to do so. Regards, rfg P.S. Traditional WHOIS supports referrals. For an example, try this: whois -h whois.iana.org 1197 (Providing referrals in traditional WHOIS isn't exactly rocket surgery. The fact that certain RIRs may be too... umm... preoccupied to take the time to properly populate their data bases with such referrals notwithstanding.)
Current thread:
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24, (continued)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 29)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Stephen Satchell (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Doug Clements (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Michael Smith (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Nick Hilliard (Oct 29)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 David Conrad (Oct 29)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 29)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Nick Hilliard (Oct 29)
- Death of WHOIS, Film at 11 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 29)
- Re: Death of WHOIS, Film at 11 Nick Hilliard (Oct 30)
- Re: Death of WHOIS, Film at 11 Christopher Morrow (Oct 30)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 28)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Tony Finch (Oct 31)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Christopher Morrow (Oct 31)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Nick Hilliard (Oct 31)
- Re: Another day, another illicit SQUAT - WebNX (AS18450) 103.11.67.0/24 Selphie Keller (Oct 31)