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Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () orthanc ca>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:30:03 -0700

On Apr 21, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () orthanc ca> wrote:

But backup and failover are reasonably well understood technologies
where one cares. Registrars could for example cache copies of those
zone records and act as failover whois servers.



Sorry!  I left out the last line that was the point of my diatribe.  Using SRV to point to multiple domain-specific 
whois servers eliminates the caching problem Barry raised.

Current thread:

RE: Is WHOIS going to go away?, (continued)
- - - RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Naslund, Steve (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rubens Kuhl (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 21)
    - RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Naslund, Steve (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Brian Kantor (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Mark Andrews (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rubens Kuhl (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 21)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 21)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 21)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Mark Andrews (Apr 21)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 21)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? valdis . kletnieks (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? valdis . kletnieks (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rich Kulawiec (Apr 25)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? valdis . kletnieks (Apr 20)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Scott Schmit (Apr 24)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? bzs (Apr 24)
    - Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? Rich Kulawiec (Apr 25)
- RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Scott Weeks (Apr 20)

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