Worth Reading: We’re Still on Whois? Here we are in a modern age, and yet the load on the public whois service at APNIC continues unabated. It’s believed they’re mostly queries from automatic systems, checking the authority over an IP address, almost certainly from firewall checks, an amount of manual data exploration by law enforcement and IPR agencies, and at the tail end, ISPs doing semi-automatic router configuration. —George Michaelson @ APNIC Related ← Worth Reading: The TCP TortoiseWorth Reading: The shape of HPC and AI iron to come →
