Death to Whois
Death to Whois An exploratory look at RDAP ## Introduction While writing code for PeeringDB, I did extensive work querying and comparing RDAP results across the …
| Talk Title | Death to Whois |
| Speakers | Matt Griswold, United IX, 20C |
| Conference | NANOG72 |
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| Location | Atlanta, GA |
| Date | Feb 19 2018 - Feb 21 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | Talk Video |
Death to Whois
An exploratory look at RDAP
Introduction
While writing code for PeeringDB, I did extensive work querying and comparing RDAP results across the RIRs and was surprised by the inconsistencies. It’s a great tool to replace whois, but it still needs work and communication to come to fruition – luckily the RIRs have all been very receptive to complaints and are quick to fix bugs.
Problems with whois
- normalization
- inability to automate around it
Great features of rwhois
- recursive
- how that adapt to HTTP redirects and REST fit perfectly
RDAP
- intro
- IP/ASN/DNS/etc
- compare results from all 5 RIRs
- RIRs are very responsive to fixing
Replacing whois completely with RESTful services
- what is required
- what we have now
- minimal gap to make this actually work
PeeringDB client
- example of how a client can function as whois, only with authenticated data
- same code / output as PDB whois server
- authenticated gives added data
- ability to bring results directly into code / automation
Going Forward
- GROW discussion
- new tool chain
