Worth Reading: Fragile, unparseable, obsolete… and universally relied upon The WHOIS protocol is one of the older internet protocols around. It’s infuriatingly simple, by and large considered obsolete, and the data provided by it unpredictable, unreliable, incomplete, and, of course, still one of the corner stones of internet operations Related ← Worth Reading: Internet FragmentationWorth Reading: SONiC is Not Just for Switches Anymore →
