Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)

[Nick Hilliard via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

John R. Levine via NANOG wrote on 23/08/2026 23:22:
> It occurs to me that if people REALLY REALLY want WHOIS, it would not 
> be terribly hard to write a proxy that puts a WHOIS front end on RDAP 
> servers. 

Or even simpler:

$ brew install rdap
$ echo alias whois rdap >> ~/.bashrc
$ . ~/.bashrc

As a benefit of this, you'll even get parsable yaml (or json / xml if 
you want that instead), instead of the unstructured mess you get with whois.

Nick

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